diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 53f23ec..739214f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1496,16 +1496,8 @@ python -m pytest
 
 Additionally, all the code and examples located in this file, README.md,
 is tested and verified with the builtin doctest framework.
-A special routine for invoking the doctest is run when calling directly on shapefile.py.
-In the same folder as README.md and shapefile.py, from the command line run:
-
-```shell
-python shapefile.py
-```
-
-This tests the code inside shapefile.py itself.  To test an installed PyShp wheel against
-the doctests, the same special routine can be invoked (in an env with the wheel and pytest
-installed) from the test file:
+A special routine for invoking the doctests against an installed PyShp wheel
+can be invoked (in an env with the wheel and pytest installed) from the test file:
 
 
 ```shell
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7bcb24e..2578661 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -36,9 +36,6 @@ test = ["pytest"]
 [project.urls]
 Repository = "https://github.com/GeospatialPython/pyshp"
 
-[project.scripts]
-shapefile="shapefile.__main__:main"
-
 [tool.hatch.build.targets.sdist]
 only-include = ["src", "shapefiles", "test_shapefile.py"]