diff --git a/read_cifar.py b/read_cifar.py
index 362ba3d688ac0ffefe9dc0d10dc90cde0f171a1b..7b24a902e2ef69c1e7c485517612e3c3606eac61 100644
--- a/read_cifar.py
+++ b/read_cifar.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import numpy as np
 from six.moves import cPickle as pickle
 import os
 import platform
-from sklearn.utils import shuffle
 #Defining the classes contained in the CIFAR-10 dataset
 classes = ('plane', 'car', 'bird', 'cat',
            'deer', 'dog', 'frog', 'horse', 'ship', 'truck')