diff --git a/avocado/utils/asset.py b/avocado/utils/asset.py
index a378ae1a5c6dee3b304a6284ffdeb534452d5ba1..9da8b6be962063ba65f329d9e5e2f19a16fdb65f 100644
--- a/avocado/utils/asset.py
+++ b/avocado/utils/asset.py
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ import stat
 import sys
 import time
 import tempfile
-import urlparse
+
+try:
+    import urlparse
+except ImportError:
+    import urllib.parse as urlparse
 
 from . import crypto
 from . import path as utils_path
diff --git a/avocado/utils/download.py b/avocado/utils/download.py
index aff9c8ee721cf062accdb3dd2074681bede1a6ea..0b335f7fe0cba07fd06a283f71e2dbf0b845530a 100644
--- a/avocado/utils/download.py
+++ b/avocado/utils/download.py
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ import logging
 import os
 import socket
 import shutil
-import urllib2
+
+try:
+    from urllib2 import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
 
 from . import aurl
 from . import output
@@ -44,7 +48,7 @@ def url_open(url, data=None, timeout=5):
     old_timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
     socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout)
     try:
-        return urllib2.urlopen(url, data=data)
+        return urlopen(url, data=data)
     finally:
         socket.setdefaulttimeout(old_timeout)
 
@@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ def url_download_interactive(url, output_file, title='', chunk_size=102400):
     """
     output_dir = os.path.dirname(output_file)
     output_file = open(output_file, 'w+b')
-    input_file = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+    input_file = urlopen(url)
 
     try:
         file_size = int(input_file.headers['Content-Length'])
diff --git a/selftests/functional/test_thirdparty_bugs.py b/selftests/functional/test_thirdparty_bugs.py
index acbccc1d36b81e65f8b9abbe10a36c724e318794..384ef6925441e27444b20e298d0cdb32ab231d96 100644
--- a/selftests/functional/test_thirdparty_bugs.py
+++ b/selftests/functional/test_thirdparty_bugs.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import json
 import unittest
-import urllib2
+
+try:
+    from urllib2 import URLError
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib.error import URLError
 
 from avocado.utils import download
 
@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ class TestThirdPartyBugs(unittest.TestCase):
                              'change the avocado.conf option '
                              '"reject_unknown_hosts" defaults to True.' %
                              'https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/issues/243')
-        except urllib2.URLError as details:
+        except URLError as details:
             raise unittest.SkipTest(details)