diff --git a/IPython/lib/tests/test_display.py b/IPython/lib/tests/test_display.py
index 533bb46..7e98a18 100644
--- a/IPython/lib/tests/test_display.py
+++ b/IPython/lib/tests/test_display.py
@@ -14,11 +14,7 @@
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile, mkdtemp
 from os.path import split, join as pjoin, dirname
-import sys
-try:
-    import pathlib
-except ImportError:
-    pass
+import pathlib
 from unittest import TestCase, mock
 import struct
 import wave