diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.70.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.70.0.bb
index a7efd2f7f0..6a28dc926e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.70.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/rust/rust_1.70.0.bb
@@ -72,10 +72,7 @@ do_rust_setup_snapshot[vardepsexclude] += "UNINATIVE_LOADER"
 
 python do_configure() {
     import json
-    try:
-        import configparser
-    except ImportError:
-        import ConfigParser as configparser
+    import configparser
 
     # toml is rather similar to standard ini like format except it likes values
     # that look more JSON like. So for our purposes simply escaping all values