diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ce7536defbd..37a6f84864b 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 #
 from pathlib import Path
-import regex as re
+import re
 import shutil
 import string