diff --git a/spacy/tests/conftest.py b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
index f34b07bd5..0fc74243d 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/conftest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from pathlib import Path
 import pytest
 from spacy.util import get_lang_class
 from hypothesis import settings
diff --git a/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py b/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
index 6d47cb606..b657daed2 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/training/test_training.py
@@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ def test_training_before_update(doc):
     def generate_batch():
         yield 1, [Example(doc, doc)]
 
-    nlp = spacy.blank("en", config={"training": {}})
+    nlp = spacy.blank("en")
     nlp.add_pipe("tagger")
     optimizer = Adam()
     generator = train_while_improving(