diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
index 1e0996c2c9e..435709073c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
@@ -805,8 +805,6 @@ Classes and functions
    from kwonlyargs to defaults.  *annotations* is a dictionary mapping argument
    names to annotations.
 
-   The first four items in the tuple correspond to :func:`getargspec`.
-
    .. versionchanged:: 3.4
       This function is now based on :func:`signature`, but still ignores
       ``__wrapped__`` attributes and includes the already bound first
@@ -835,7 +833,7 @@ Classes and functions
 .. function:: formatargspec(args[, varargs, varkw, defaults, kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, annotations[, formatarg, formatvarargs, formatvarkw, formatvalue, formatreturns, formatannotations]])
 
    Format a pretty argument spec from the values returned by
-   :func:`getargspec` or :func:`getfullargspec`.
+   :func:`getfullargspec`.
 
    The first seven arguments are (``args``, ``varargs``, ``varkw``,
    ``defaults``, ``kwonlyargs``, ``kwonlydefaults``, ``annotations``).
diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 1e94a9c539b..a089be696e5 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Here are some of the useful functions provided by this module:
     getmodule() - determine the module that an object came from
     getclasstree() - arrange classes so as to represent their hierarchy
 
-    getargspec(), getargvalues(), getcallargs() - get info about function arguments
+    getargvalues(), getcallargs() - get info about function arguments
     getfullargspec() - same, with support for Python 3 features
     formatargspec(), formatargvalues() - format an argument spec
     getouterframes(), getinnerframes() - get info about frames
@@ -1018,8 +1018,6 @@ def getfullargspec(func):
     'kwonlydefaults' is a dictionary mapping names from kwonlyargs to defaults.
     'annotations' is a dictionary mapping argument names to annotations.
 
-    The first four items in the tuple correspond to getargspec().
-
     This function is deprecated, use inspect.signature() instead.
     """
 
@@ -1130,8 +1128,7 @@ def formatargspec(args, varargs=None, varkw=None, defaults=None,
                   formatvalue=lambda value: '=' + repr(value),
                   formatreturns=lambda text: ' -> ' + text,
                   formatannotation=formatannotation):
-    """Format an argument spec from the values returned by getargspec
-    or getfullargspec.
+    """Format an argument spec from the values returned by getfullargspec.
 
     The first seven arguments are (args, varargs, varkw, defaults,
     kwonlyargs, kwonlydefaults, annotations).  The other five arguments
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
index 309ee2a7978..db15b39d39b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_inspect.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ from test.test_import import _ready_to_import
 # ismodule, isclass, ismethod, isfunction, istraceback, isframe, iscode,
 # isbuiltin, isroutine, isgenerator, isgeneratorfunction, getmembers,
 # getdoc, getfile, getmodule, getsourcefile, getcomments, getsource,
-# getclasstree, getargspec, getargvalues, formatargspec, formatargvalues,
+# getclasstree, getargvalues, formatargspec, formatargvalues,
 # currentframe, stack, trace, isdatadescriptor
 
 # NOTE: There are some additional tests relating to interaction with