diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8103e4e6..d1bcee5e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 nose
-unittest2
+
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index 18dd2592..08ef5178 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import json
 import time
 import os
 import sys
-import unittest2 as unittest
+import unittest
 
 import requests
 from requests.compat import str, bytes, StringIO