diff --git a/coverage/__init__.py b/coverage/__init__.py
index 429a7bd02..efd0a6f03 100644
--- a/coverage/__init__.py
+++ b/coverage/__init__.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Licensed under the Apache License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 # For details: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/blob/master/NOTICE.txt
 
-"""Code coverage measurement for Python.
+"""
+Code coverage measurement for Python.
 
 Ned Batchelder
-https://nedbatchelder.com/code/coverage
+https://coverage.readthedocs.io
 
 """
 
@@ -25,12 +26,3 @@
 # the encodings.utf_8 module is loaded and then unloaded, I don't know why.
 # Adding a reference here prevents it from being unloaded.  Yuk.
 import encodings.utf_8      # pylint: disable=wrong-import-position, wrong-import-order
-
-# Because of the "from coverage.control import fooey" lines at the top of the
-# file, there's an entry for coverage.coverage in sys.modules, mapped to None.
-# This makes some inspection tools (like pydoc) unable to find the class
-# coverage.coverage.  So remove that entry.
-try:
-    del sys.modules['coverage.coverage']
-except KeyError:
-    pass