diff --git a/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index 8f8dcf0b0..84a75f7fb 100644
--- a/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/fr/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from ..language_data.tokenizer_exceptions import _URL_PATTERN
 from ..language_data.punctuation import ALPHA_LOWER
 
 from .punctuation import ELISION, HYPHENS
-from ._tokenizer_exceptions_list import BASE_EXCEPTIONS
 
 from ..symbols import *
 
@@ -18,13 +17,9 @@ import re
 
 
 def get_exceptions():
+    from ._tokenizer_exceptions_list import BASE_EXCEPTIONS
     return BASE_EXCEPTIONS
 
-    # with io.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'resources/tokenizer_exceptions'),
-    #              'rt', encoding='utf8') as f:
-    #     for line in f:
-    #         yield line.strip('\n')
-
 
 def upper_first_letter(text):
     if len(text) == 0:
@@ -217,6 +212,4 @@ REGULAR_EXP.append(_URL_PATTERN)
 
 TOKEN_MATCH = re.compile('|'.join('(?:{})'.format(m) for m in REGULAR_EXP), re.IGNORECASE).match
 
-#TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS = get_tokenizer_exceptions()
-
 __all__ = ["get_tokenizer_exceptions", "TOKEN_MATCH"]