diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1cd12796b7..e8b34d2a88 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "importlib_metadata>=3.6",
     "packaging",
     "sopel-help>=0.4.0",
+    "sopel-py>=1.0.1",  # TODO: drop for 8.1
 ]
 
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/sopel/modules/py.py b/sopel/modules/py.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f134323ce..0000000000
--- a/sopel/modules/py.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-"""
-py.py - Sopel Python Eval Plugin
-Copyright 2008, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com
-Licensed under the Eiffel Forum License 2.
-
-https://sopel.chat
-"""
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-from requests import get
-
-from sopel import plugin
-from sopel.config import types
-from sopel.tools.web import quote
-
-
-class PySection(types.StaticSection):
-    oblique_instance = types.ValidatedAttribute(
-        'oblique_instance',
-        default='https://oblique.sopel.chat/')
-    """The Oblique instance to use when evaluating Python expressions"""
-
-
-def configure(config):
-    """
-    | name | example | purpose |
-    | ---- | ------- | ------- |
-    | oblique_instance | https://oblique.sopel.chat/ | The Oblique instance to use when evaluating Python expressions (see <https://github.com/sopel-irc/oblique>) |
-    """
-    config.define_section('py', PySection)
-    config.py.configure_setting(
-        'oblique_instance',
-        'Enter the base URL of a custom Oblique instance (optional): '
-    )
-
-
-def setup(bot):
-    bot.config.define_section('py', PySection)
-
-    if not any(
-        bot.config.py.oblique_instance.startswith(prot)
-        for prot in ['http://', 'https://']
-    ):
-        raise ValueError('Oblique instance URL must start with a protocol.')
-
-    if not bot.config.py.oblique_instance.endswith('/'):
-        bot.config.py.oblique_instance += '/'
-
-
-@plugin.command('py')
-@plugin.output_prefix('[py] ')
-@plugin.example('.py len([1,2,3])', '3', online=True, vcr=True)
-def py(bot, trigger):
-    """Evaluate a Python expression."""
-    query = trigger.group(2)
-    if not query:
-        bot.reply('What expression do you want me to evaluate?')
-        return
-
-    uri = bot.config.py.oblique_instance + 'py/'
-    answer = get(uri + quote(query)).content.decode('utf-8')
-    if answer:
-        bot.say(answer)
-    else:
-        bot.reply('Sorry, no result.')
diff --git a/test/vcr/modules/py/test_example_py_0.yaml b/test/vcr/modules/py/test_example_py_0.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index b41cf7a754..0000000000
--- a/test/vcr/modules/py/test_example_py_0.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-interactions:
-- request:
-    body: null
-    headers:
-      Accept: ['*/*']
-      Accept-Encoding: ['gzip, deflate']
-      Connection: [keep-alive]
-      User-Agent: [python-requests/2.24.0]
-    method: GET
-    uri: https://oblique.sopel.chat/py/len%28%5B1%2C2%2C3%5D%29
-  response:
-    body: {string: '3
-
-'}
-    headers:
-      Cache-Control: [no-cache]
-      Content-Length: ['2']
-      Content-Type: [text/plain]
-      Date: ['Fri, 09 Oct 2020 04:40:29 GMT']
-      Server: [Google Frontend]
-      X-Cloud-Trace-Context: [ca53ebf0dbb861ffcceed76af746c923;o=1]
-    status: {code: 200, message: OK}
-version: 1