diff --git a/test/integration/targets/filter_core/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/filter_core/tasks/main.yml
index a1ed12c710c..340fc61a354 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/filter_core/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/filter_core/tasks/main.yml
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@
 - debug:
     var: some_registered_var
 
-- name: Verify that we workaround a py26 json bug
-  template:
-    src: py26json.j2
-    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/py26json.templated"
-    mode: 0644
-
 - name: 9851 - Verify that we don't trigger https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9851
   copy:
     content: " [{{ item | to_nice_json }}]"
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/filter_core/templates/py26json.j2 b/test/integration/targets/filter_core/templates/py26json.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index dba62ad17c7..00000000000
--- a/test/integration/targets/filter_core/templates/py26json.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Provoke a python2.6 json bug
-{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname] | to_nice_json }}