diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 6f40a6bf..62f47ac7 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 * Fix type annotations for `convertFile` - it accepts only bytes-based buffers.
   Also remove legacy checks from Python 2 (#1400)
+* Remove legacy import needed only in Python 2 (#1403)
 * Improve and expand type annotations in the code base (#1401).
 
 ## [3.5.1] -- 2023-10-31
diff --git a/markdown/inlinepatterns.py b/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
index ef6f0fbc..3d366ad9 100644
--- a/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
+++ b/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
@@ -44,10 +44,7 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Collection, NamedTuple
 import re
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
-try:  # pragma: no cover
-    from html import entities
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    import htmlentitydefs as entities
+from html import entities
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover
     from markdown import Markdown