diff --git a/pelican/contents.py b/pelican/contents.py
index 90121316..96466a94 100644
--- a/pelican/contents.py
+++ b/pelican/contents.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals, print_function
 import six
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import (unquote, urlparse, urlunparse)
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse
 
 import copy
 import locale
diff --git a/pelican/writers.py b/pelican/writers.py
index bf32e272..e90a0004 100644
--- a/pelican/writers.py
+++ b/pelican/writers.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ from __future__ import with_statement, unicode_literals, print_function
 import six
 
 import os
-import locale
 import logging
 
 if not six.PY3: