diff --git a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
index 63cb895695d0..a6397ea70182 100644
--- a/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/tkinter/__init__.py
@@ -49,12 +49,6 @@
 WRITABLE = _tkinter.WRITABLE
 EXCEPTION = _tkinter.EXCEPTION
 
-# These are not always defined, e.g. not on Win32 with Tk 8.0 :-(
-try: _tkinter.createfilehandler
-except AttributeError: _tkinter.createfilehandler = None
-try: _tkinter.deletefilehandler
-except AttributeError: _tkinter.deletefilehandler = None
-
 
 def _flatten(seq):
     """Internal function."""