diff --git a/aider/linter.py b/aider/linter.py
index 0e2d89b75..9258fe350 100644
--- a/aider/linter.py
+++ b/aider/linter.py
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
-import os
 import sys
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
 
-import tree_sitter
 from grep_ast import TreeContext, filename_to_lang
 
-from aider.dump import dump
-
 # tree_sitter is throwing a FutureWarning
 warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=FutureWarning)
 from tree_sitter_languages import get_language, get_parser  # noqa: E402
@@ -18,7 +14,6 @@ def basic_lint(fname, code):
     if not lang:
         return
 
-    language = get_language(lang)
     parser = get_parser(lang)
 
     tree = parser.parse(bytes(code, "utf-8"))