diff --git a/Lib/robotparser.py b/Lib/robotparser.py
index 7940586f9bc435..71dcaeeaf5b603 100644
--- a/Lib/robotparser.py
+++ b/Lib/robotparser.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     The robots.txt Exclusion Protocol is implemented as specified in
     http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html
 """
-import re,urlparse,urllib
+import urlparse,urllib
 
 __all__ = ["RobotFileParser"]