diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 2682570d7..3e4db141a 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ import inspect
 import pkgutil
 import logging
 import socket
-import stat
 
 try:
     import cupy.random