diff --git a/bin/ansible b/bin/ansible
index 75529ec9ae2..c281212333b 100755
--- a/bin/ansible
+++ b/bin/ansible
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 
 import sys
 import getpass
-import shlex
 import time
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/connection.py b/lib/ansible/connection.py
index f8e01c5e0b3..d5d19a0b07b 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/connection.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/connection.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class ParamikoConnection(object):
                 # print "waiting on %s" % result_file
                 time.sleep(1)
                 try:
-                    stat = sftp.stat(result_file)
+                    sftp.stat(result_file)
                     break
                 except IOError:
                     pass