diff --git a/ceph/python-cephclient/python-cephclient/cephclient/client.py b/ceph/python-cephclient/python-cephclient/cephclient/client.py
index 966f5fef..f27b1b36 100644
--- a/ceph/python-cephclient/python-cephclient/cephclient/client.py
+++ b/ceph/python-cephclient/python-cephclient/cephclient/client.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import ipaddress
 import json
 import logging
 import os
-import urlparse
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 import re
 import requests
 import six