1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/strings.py b/pylint/checkers/strings.py
index ce122e754..2cc780da5 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/strings.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/strings.py
@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import collections
 import re
-import sys
 import tokenize
 from collections import Counter
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Sequence
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Literal
 
 import astroid
 from astroid import bases, nodes, util
@@ -26,11 +25,6 @@ from pylint.typing import MessageDefinitionTuple
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pylint.lint import PyLinter
 
-if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
-    from typing import Literal
-else:
-    from typing_extensions import Literal
-
 
 _AST_NODE_STR_TYPES = ("__builtin__.unicode", "__builtin__.str", "builtins.str")
 # Prefixes for both strings and bytes literals per