diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_yahoo.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_yahoo.py
index 1109d67278f73..b79fdad2bff9d 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_yahoo.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_yahoo.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 import nose
 from datetime import datetime
 
-from pandas.util.py3compat import StringIO, BytesIO
-
 import pandas as pd
 import pandas.io.data as web
 from pandas.util.testing import (network, assert_frame_equal,