diff --git a/misc/checkers/check_load.py b/misc/checkers/check_load.py
index d509b89ae..01a9ed832 100644
--- a/misc/checkers/check_load.py
+++ b/misc/checkers/check_load.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import print_function
-
 """
 this is a load-generating client program. It does all of its work through a
 given tahoe node (specified by URL), and performs random reads and writes