diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index 9b8be192..8667a299 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ except ImportError:
 import re
 
 import cgi
-from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
+try:
+    from html.parser import HTMLParser
+except ImportError:
+    from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 
 from pelican.contents import Category, Tag, Author
 from pelican.utils import get_date, pelican_open
diff --git a/tests/test_readers.py b/tests/test_readers.py
index 49130669..39bc2067 100644
--- a/tests/test_readers.py
+++ b/tests/test_readers.py
@@ -286,9 +286,9 @@ class HTMLReaderTest(unittest.TestCase):
         content, metadata = reader.read(_path('article_with_metadata.html'))
         expected = {
             'category': 'yeah',
-            'author': u'Alexis Métaireau',
+            'author': 'Alexis Métaireau',
             'title': 'This is a super article !',
-            'summary': u'''Summary and stuff''',
+            'summary': 'Summary and stuff',
             'date': datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 2, 10, 14),
             'tags': ['foo', 'bar', 'foobar'],
             'custom_field': 'http://notmyidea.org',