diff --git a/bin/ansible-connection b/bin/ansible-connection
index f77e3f2fe6f..0d9ad17131d 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-connection
+++ b/bin/ansible-connection
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import json
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 from ansible import constants as C
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import cPickle, StringIO
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError, send_data, recv_data
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py b/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
index 40026ff851d..18427d8caed 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/adhoc.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 ########################################################
 
-import os
-
 from ansible import constants as C
 from ansible.cli import CLI
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
diff --git a/lib/ansible/cli/config.py b/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
index 170b95adfaa..f6f239845f6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/cli/config.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import yaml
 from ansible.cli import CLI
 from ansible.config.manager import ConfigManager, Setting, find_ini_config_file
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleOptionsError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text, to_bytes
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.dumper import AnsibleDumper
 from ansible.utils.color import stringc
 from ansible.utils.path import unfrackpath