diff --git a/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py b/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py
index 513e06f30b..d706ccd395 100755
--- a/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py
+++ b/contrib/inventory/azure_rm.py
@@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ except ImportError:
     # python3
     import configparser as cp
 
-from packaging.version import Version
-
 from os.path import expanduser
 import ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse