diff --git a/test/py/conftest.py b/test/py/conftest.py
index 7b97cbaa0e..1ec096e241 100644
--- a/test/py/conftest.py
+++ b/test/py/conftest.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import atexit
 import errno
 import os
 import os.path
-import pexpect
 import pytest
 from _pytest.runner import runtestprotocol
 import ConfigParser