diff --git a/bilby/__init__.py b/bilby/__init__.py
index a9e8a5ddcd832061cf19384e3fb914c36b674374..263273dc8814c85772c053fbc9038dbee40ee5f2 100644
--- a/bilby/__init__.py
+++ b/bilby/__init__.py
@@ -24,29 +24,5 @@ from .core import utils, likelihood, prior, result, sampler
 from .core.sampler import run_sampler
 from .core.likelihood import Likelihood
 
-__version__ = utils.get_version_information()
-
-
-if sys.version_info < (3,):
-    raise ImportError(
-"""You are running bilby >= 0.6.4 on Python 2
-
-Bilby 0.6.4 and above are no longer compatible with Python 2, and you still
-ended up with this version installed. That's unfortunate; sorry about that.
-It should not have happened. Make sure you have pip >= 9.0 to avoid this kind
-of issue, as well as setuptools >= 24.2:
-
- $ pip install pip setuptools --upgrade
-
-Your choices:
-
-- Upgrade to Python 3.
-
-- Install an older version of bilby:
-
- $ pip install 'bilby<0.6.4'
-
-""")
-
 from . import _version
 __version__ = _version.get_versions()['version']