diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index fba908fba..8cc89217d 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import inspect
 import pkgutil
 import logging
 import socket
+import stat
 
 try:
     import cupy.random