diff --git a/src/allmydata/test/cli/test_alias.py b/src/allmydata/test/cli/test_alias.py
index 6eaa82e3e..f2d65bb73 100644
--- a/src/allmydata/test/cli/test_alias.py
+++ b/src/allmydata/test/cli/test_alias.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ from allmydata.util.encodingutil import unicode_to_argv
 from allmydata.scripts.common import get_aliases
 from allmydata.test.no_network import GridTestMixin
 from .common import CLITestMixin
-from ..common_util import skip_if_cannot_represent_argv
 
 # see also test_create_alias