diff --git a/scrapy/utils/python.py b/scrapy/utils/python.py
index 9204977cf..7a393925e 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/python.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/python.py
@@ -273,18 +273,6 @@ def equal_attributes(obj1, obj2, attributes):
     return True
 
 
-class WeakKeyCache:
-
-    def __init__(self, default_factory):
-        self.default_factory = default_factory
-        self._weakdict = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
-
-    def __getitem__(self, key):
-        if key not in self._weakdict:
-            self._weakdict[key] = self.default_factory(key)
-        return self._weakdict[key]
-
-
 @deprecated
 def retry_on_eintr(function, *args, **kw):
     """Run a function and retry it while getting EINTR errors"""
diff --git a/tests/test_utils_python.py b/tests/test_utils_python.py
index ebce3c079..b23ae2e52 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils_python.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils_python.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from warnings import catch_warnings
 
 from scrapy.utils.python import (
     memoizemethod_noargs, binary_is_text, equal_attributes,
-    WeakKeyCache, get_func_args, to_bytes, to_unicode,
+    get_func_args, to_bytes, to_unicode,
     without_none_values, MutableChain)
 
 
@@ -155,22 +155,6 @@ class UtilsPythonTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         a.meta['z'] = 2
         self.assertFalse(equal_attributes(a, b, [compare_z, 'x']))
 
-    def test_weakkeycache(self):
-        class _Weakme:
-            pass
-
-        _values = count()
-        wk = WeakKeyCache(lambda k: next(_values))
-        k = _Weakme()
-        v = wk[k]
-        self.assertEqual(v, wk[k])
-        self.assertNotEqual(v, wk[_Weakme()])
-        self.assertEqual(v, wk[k])
-        del k
-        for _ in range(100):
-            if wk._weakdict:
-                gc.collect()
-        self.assertFalse(len(wk._weakdict))
 
     def test_get_func_args(self):
         def f1(a, b, c):