diff --git a/src/crewai/utilities/token_counter_callback.py b/src/crewai/utilities/token_counter_callback.py
index c5f632d5f5..dc0cef71df 100644
--- a/src/crewai/utilities/token_counter_callback.py
+++ b/src/crewai/utilities/token_counter_callback.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def __init__(self, model_name, token_cost_process):
         self.token_cost_process = token_cost_process
         try:
             self.encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model(self.model_name)
-        except KeyError as e:
+        except KeyError:
             self.encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding("cl100k_base")
 
     def on_llm_start(