diff --git a/.hgsvnexternals b/.hgsvnexternals
deleted file mode 100644
index 9db23dff4..000000000
--- a/.hgsvnexternals
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[.]
- docutils -r5461 svn://svn.berlios.de/docutils/trunk/docutils/docutils
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4216a4d6b..f66582be4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ clean:
 	-rm *.html
 
 update:
-	svn update
+	hg pull --update http://hg.python.org/peps
 
 propcheck:
 	$(PYTHON) propcheck.py
diff --git a/pep0/constants.py b/pep0/constants.py
index 1bdf201cc..d3e85de85 100644
--- a/pep0/constants.py
+++ b/pep0/constants.py
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ Created: 13-Jul-2000
 intro = u"""
     The PEP contains the index of all Python Enhancement Proposals,
     known as PEPs.  PEP numbers are assigned by the PEP Editor, and
-    once assigned are never changed.  The SVN history[1] of the PEP
-    texts represent their historical record.
+    once assigned are never changed.  The Mercurial history[1] of
+    the PEP texts represent their historical record.
 """
 
 references = u"""
     [1] View PEP history online
-        http://svn.python.org/projects/peps/trunk/
+        http://hg.python.org/peps/
 """
 
 footer = u"""
diff --git a/pep2html.py b/pep2html.py
index b2fc637e0..273920f1d 100755
--- a/pep2html.py
+++ b/pep2html.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ REQUIRES = {'python': '2.2',
 PROGRAM = sys.argv[0]
 RFCURL = 'http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc%d.html'
 PEPURL = 'pep-%04d.html'
-PEPCVSURL = ('http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-%04d.txt')
+PEPCVSURL = ('http://hg.python.org/peps/file/tip/pep-%04d.txt')
 PEPDIRRUL = 'http://www.python.org/peps/'
 
 
diff --git a/pep2pyramid.py b/pep2pyramid.py
index 7cbf79e9d..4ea997a8f 100755
--- a/pep2pyramid.py
+++ b/pep2pyramid.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ PROGRAM = sys.argv[0]
 SERVER_DEST_DIR_BASE = (
     '/data/ftp.python.org/pub/beta.python.org/build/data/dev/peps')
 RFCURL = 'http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc%d.html'
-PEPCVSURL = 'http://svn.python.org/view/*checkout*/peps/trunk/pep-%04d.txt'
+PEPCVSURL = 'http://hg.python.org/peps/file/tip/pep-%04d.txt'
 PEPDIRURL = '/dev/peps/'
 PEPURL = PEPDIRURL + 'pep-%04d'
 PEPANCHOR = '<a href="' + PEPURL + '">%i</a>'
diff --git a/propcheck.py b/propcheck.py
deleted file mode 100755
index b4dfc74d7..000000000
--- a/propcheck.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""Perform an integrity check upon all PEPs to make sure the needed svn
-properties are set."""
-
-import glob
-import pdb
-import subprocess
-from xml.etree import ElementTree
-
-PROPS = {'svn:eol-style': "native", 'svn:keywords': "Author Date Id Revision"}
-
-
-def get_props():
-    """Return the properties set on pep-*.txt files as an ElementTree instance.
-
-    Files with no properties set will not be contained in the returned data.
-
-    """
-    cmd = 'svn proplist --xml pep-*.txt'
-    proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
-    xml_results = proc.communicate()[0]
-    if proc.returncode:
-        raise subprocess.CalledProcessError("%s returned %d" %
-                                            (cmd, proc.returncode))
-    return ElementTree.fromstring(xml_results)
-
-
-def missing_props(props):
-    """Figure out what properties are missing on what PEPs, returning a sequence
-    of (path, [missing_props]) pairs.
-
-    For the set properties (as calculated by get_props()), see which PEPs are
-    lacking any properties. For the PEPs that are not even listed in the set
-    properties, assume they are missing all needed properties.
-
-    """
-    problems = []
-    missing_files = set(glob.glob('pep-*.txt'))
-    missing_files.remove('pep-0000.txt')
-    for target in props:
-        assert target.tag == 'target'
-        needs = PROPS.keys()
-        path = target.attrib['path']
-        missing_files.remove(path)
-        for property in target.getchildren():
-            assert property.tag == 'property'
-            try:
-                needs.remove(property.attrib['name'])
-            except ValueError:
-                pass
-        if needs:
-            problems.append([path, needs])
-    for path in missing_files:
-        problems.append([path, PROPS.keys()])
-    return problems
-
-
-def fix_props(missing_props):
-    """Fix the missing properties."""
-    for path, missing in missing_props:
-        print "For %s, setting %s" % (path, missing)
-        for problem in missing:
-            cmd = 'svn propset %s "%s" %s' % (problem, PROPS[problem], path)
-            subprocess.check_call(cmd, shell=True)
-
-
-def main():
-    props = get_props()
-    need_fixing = missing_props(props)
-    fix_props(need_fixing)
-
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()