diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/bin/gstlal_inspiral_pipe b/gstlal-inspiral/bin/gstlal_inspiral_pipe
index 9b5d4d3598e6b856bfb18ac853b7a9fb173281e0..32e0bf30c0944d1a3eb836400fbc495dbab63b91 100755
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/bin/gstlal_inspiral_pipe
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/bin/gstlal_inspiral_pipe
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ __author__ = 'Chad Hanna <chad.hanna@ligo.org>'
 # import standard modules and append the lalapps prefix to the python path
 import sys, os, stat
 import itertools
+import numpy
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
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