diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xpickle.py b/Lib/test/test_xpickle.py
index 4db894b..0da6997 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xpickle.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xpickle.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import pickle
 import cPickle
 import unittest
-from cStringIO import StringIO
 
 from test import test_support
 from test.pickletester import AbstractPickleTests