diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4aa8bcb04..cd2e1f0f5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import distutils.spawn
 import os.path
-import re
 from setuptools import find_packages
 from setuptools import setup
 import shlex