diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index 638219de..5c18e184 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import cgi
 import codecs
 import collections
 import io
-import functools
 import os
 import platform
 import re