From 3ea936312a4079f642c56402c2c2fb5ec1e65591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:04:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove an unnecessary import from the ansiballz wrapper
 (#41747)

---
 changelogs/fragments/ansiballz_streamline_imports.yaml | 3 +++
 lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py                  | 6 ------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/ansiballz_streamline_imports.yaml

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/ansiballz_streamline_imports.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/ansiballz_streamline_imports.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..04aaec0141
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/ansiballz_streamline_imports.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+minor_changes:
+- Removed an unnecessary import from the AnsiballZ wrapper
diff --git a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
index 009eb06c48..feff2af2e3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/executor/module_common.py
@@ -143,12 +143,6 @@ if sys.version_info < (3,):
 else:
     unicode = str
     PY3 = True
-try:
-    # Python-2.6+
-    from io import BytesIO as IOStream
-except ImportError:
-    # Python < 2.6
-    from StringIO import StringIO as IOStream
 
 ZIPDATA = """%(zipdata)s"""