diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index da2bcd2c0c1..f7ff000d016 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from token import *
 
 import token
 __all__ = [x for x in dir(token) if x[0] != '_'] + ["COMMENT", "tokenize", "NL"]
+del x
 del token
 
 COMMENT = N_TOKENS