diff --git a/views/__init__.py b/views/__init__.py
index a20d83b9c4bfb045f35a1222749be9bc9f10f7f9_dmlld3MvX19pbml0X18ucHk=..0410b62ddfe6c4c4acddf0c8284ad15e85ea4acd_dmlld3MvX19pbml0X18ucHk= 100644
--- a/views/__init__.py
+++ b/views/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 """cubicweb-squareui views/forms/actions/components for web ui"""
 from cubicweb.web.views.boxes import ContextualBoxLayout, contextual
 
-_ = unicode
 
 class SimpleBoxContextFreeBoxLayout(ContextualBoxLayout):
     __select__ = ~contextual()