diff --git a/src/radical/utils/__init__.py b/src/radical/utils/__init__.py
index b6b336c2..53e20e07 100644
--- a/src/radical/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/src/radical/utils/__init__.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 from .profile        import PROF_KEY_MAX
 
 from .json_io        import read_json, read_json_str, write_json
-from .json_io        import parse_json, parse_json_str, metric_expand
+from .json_io        import parse_json, parse_json_str
 from .which          import which
 from .tracer         import trace, untrace
 from .get_version    import get_version