diff --git a/src/dataframe.rs b/src/dataframe.rs
index 3b840735..2967a4ff 100644
--- a/src/dataframe.rs
+++ b/src/dataframe.rs
@@ -315,7 +315,6 @@ impl PyDataFrame {
 
     // Executes this DataFrame to get the total number of rows.
     fn count(&self, py: Python) -> PyResult<usize> {
-        let count = wait_for_future(py, self.df.as_ref().clone().count());
-        Ok(count.unwrap())
+        Ok(wait_for_future(py, self.df.as_ref().clone().count())?)
     }
 }