diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
index a3321e860..3e2dfad91 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ By default this will include the following keys: `view`, `request`, `response`,
 
 The following is an example plaintext renderer that will return a response with the `data` parameter as the content of the response.
 
-    from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode
     from rest_framework import renderers