diff --git a/Lib/getopt.py b/Lib/getopt.py
index 761fc4f944c..a6ddf44bb05 100644
--- a/Lib/getopt.py
+++ b/Lib/getopt.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ option involved with the exception.
 # Gerrit Holl <gerrit@nl.linux.org> moved the string-based exceptions
 # to class-based exceptions.
 
-import string
-
 class GetoptError(Exception):
     opt = ''
     msg = ''