diff --git a/test/units/compat/unittest.py b/test/units/compat/unittest.py
index 77bb4c054cf..b4167741761 100644
--- a/test/units/compat/unittest.py
+++ b/test/units/compat/unittest.py
@@ -19,24 +19,11 @@
 from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
 __metaclass__ = type
 
-'''
-Compat module for Python2.7's unittest module
-'''
-
-import sys
-
 # Allow wildcard import because we really do want to import all of
 # unittests's symbols into this compat shim
 # pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import
-if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
-    try:
-        # Need unittest2 on python2.6
-        from unittest2 import *
-    except ImportError:
-        print('You need unittest2 installed on python2.6.x to run tests')
-else:
-    from unittest import *
+from unittest import *
 
-    if not hasattr(TestCase, 'assertRaisesRegex'):
-        # added in Python 3.2
-        TestCase.assertRaisesRegex = TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp
+if not hasattr(TestCase, 'assertRaisesRegex'):
+    # added in Python 3.2
+    TestCase.assertRaisesRegex = TestCase.assertRaisesRegexp
diff --git a/test/units/requirements.txt b/test/units/requirements.txt
index 76f3baa35e3..f25bf30a687 100644
--- a/test/units/requirements.txt
+++ b/test/units/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ bcrypt ; python_version >= '3.8'  # controller only
 passlib ; python_version >= '3.8'  # controller only
 pexpect ; python_version >= '3.8'  # controller only
 pywinrm ; python_version >= '3.8'  # controller only
-unittest2 ; python_version < '2.7'