diff --git a/stdlib/DelimitedFiles/src/DelimitedFiles.jl b/stdlib/DelimitedFiles/src/DelimitedFiles.jl
index 99f8bc7ac8b6f..b19acd4e39620 100644
--- a/stdlib/DelimitedFiles/src/DelimitedFiles.jl
+++ b/stdlib/DelimitedFiles/src/DelimitedFiles.jl
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ module DelimitedFiles
 
 using Mmap
 
-import Base: _default_delims, tryparse_internal, show
+import Base: tryparse_internal, show
 
 export readdlm, writedlm