diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f3c7e8e6..599d0ec5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 nose
+unittest
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index 08ef5178..18dd2592 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import json
 import time
 import os
 import sys
-import unittest
+import unittest2 as unittest
 
 import requests
 from requests.compat import str, bytes, StringIO