diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/saltstack.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/saltstack.py
index 250d92fdf2a..fb262db5dba 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/saltstack.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/saltstack.py
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ import subprocess
 
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import cPickle
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
 
 HAVE_SALTSTACK = False
 try: