diff --git a/intermediate_source/seq2seq_translation_tutorial.py b/intermediate_source/seq2seq_translation_tutorial.py
index 5de4bb4ca3..ed024f67fa 100755
--- a/intermediate_source/seq2seq_translation_tutorial.py
+++ b/intermediate_source/seq2seq_translation_tutorial.py
@@ -554,11 +554,6 @@ def tensorFromSentence(lang, sentence):
     indexes.append(EOS_token)
     return torch.tensor(indexes, dtype=torch.long, device=device).view(1, -1)
 
-def tensorsFromPair(pair):
-    input_tensor = tensorFromSentence(input_lang, pair[0])
-    target_tensor = tensorFromSentence(output_lang, pair[1])
-    return (input_tensor, target_tensor)
-
 def get_dataloader(batch_size):
     input_lang, output_lang, pairs = prepareData('eng', 'fra', True)