diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_generators.py b/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
index c3e36bc1..cdc98dfd 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_generators.py
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ try:
     from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 except ImportError:
     from mock import MagicMock
-from operator import itemgetter
 from shutil import rmtree
 from tempfile import mkdtemp
 
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_paginator.py b/pelican/tests/test_paginator.py
index 108dc791..5494fda8 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_paginator.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_paginator.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals, absolute_import
-import six
 import locale
 
 from pelican.tests.support import unittest, get_settings
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_pelican.py b/pelican/tests/test_pelican.py
index 29378062..c6332487 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_pelican.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_pelican.py
@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ class TestPelican(LoggedTestCase):
                          locale_available('French'), 'French locale needed')
     def test_custom_locale_generation_works(self):
         '''Test that generation with fr_FR.UTF-8 locale works'''
-        old_locale = locale.setlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
-
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
             our_locale = str('French')
         else:
diff --git a/pelican/tests/test_utils.py b/pelican/tests/test_utils.py
index f793da13..c6550459 100644
--- a/pelican/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/pelican/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import shutil
 import os
 import time
 import locale
-from sys import platform, version_info
+from sys import platform
 from tempfile import mkdtemp
 
 import pytz