diff --git a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
index eb0760ec55e..4657b99d89b 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/sax/saxutils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 $Id$
 """
 
-import types, string, sys, urllib
+import types, string, sys
 import handler
 
 def escape(data, entities = {}):