diff --git a/benchmark.py b/benchmark.py
index f856337..ab6b3a9 100755
--- a/benchmark.py
+++ b/benchmark.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import
 import scraperwiki
 import os
 from six.moves import range
diff --git a/save_speedtest.py b/save_speedtest.py
index b55e2d8..d3c1407 100755
--- a/save_speedtest.py
+++ b/save_speedtest.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import
 import scraperwiki
 from six.moves import range
 
diff --git a/scraperwiki/__init__.py b/scraperwiki/__init__.py
index b5ba542..4f9aaf1 100644
--- a/scraperwiki/__init__.py
+++ b/scraperwiki/__init__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 Local version of ScraperWiki Utils, documentation here:
 https://scraperwiki.com/docs/python/python_help_documentation/
 '''
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 from .utils import scrape, pdftoxml, status, swimport
 from . import utils
 from . import sql
diff --git a/scraperwiki/sql.py b/scraperwiki/sql.py
index 62aa149..3813236 100644
--- a/scraperwiki/sql.py
+++ b/scraperwiki/sql.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Mapping
 
diff --git a/scraperwiki/utils.py b/scraperwiki/utils.py
index f5774f1..4c2eeda 100644
--- a/scraperwiki/utils.py
+++ b/scraperwiki/utils.py
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 Local version of ScraperWiki Utils, documentation here:
 https://scraperwiki.com/docs/python/python_help_documentation/
 '''
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import os
 import sys
 import warnings
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index de0beb1..a5f7e22 100755
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import datetime
 import json
 import os