diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index 3ba8443a206235..911438bd02cfd1 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import functools
 from collections import OrderedDict
+import functools
 from io import StringIO
 from itertools import islice
 import os