diff --git a/tuskarclient/common/base.py b/tuskarclient/common/base.py
index 887a3e7..d69aa4b 100644
--- a/tuskarclient/common/base.py
+++ b/tuskarclient/common/base.py
@@ -17,13 +17,6 @@
 Base utilities to build API operation managers and objects on top of.
 """
 
-# Python 2.4 compat
-try:
-    all
-except NameError:
-    def all(iterable):
-        return True not in (not x for x in iterable)
-
 
 def getid(obj):
     """Abstracts the common pattern of allowing both an object or an