diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
index 27780551f44..4892f2f0dbb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ except ImportError:
         def byte2int(bs):
             return ord(bs[0])
 
-from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.utils.unicode import to_unicode, to_bytes