diff --git a/test/base/asserts/xml.py b/test/base/asserts/xml.py
index 4c034d6aa9e..a141333e0ef 100644
--- a/test/base/asserts/xml.py
+++ b/test/base/asserts/xml.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
 import xml.etree
 import re