diff --git a/discount/__init__.py b/discount/__init__.py
index 2650dda..dd1fed7 100644
--- a/discount/__init__.py
+++ b/discount/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 import ctypes
 
-import libmarkdown
+from discount import libmarkdown
 
 
 _KWARGS_TO_LIBMARKDOWN_FLAGS = {
diff --git a/discount/libmarkdown.py b/discount/libmarkdown.py
index 19df766..a877060 100644
--- a/discount/libmarkdown.py
+++ b/discount/libmarkdown.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 import ctypes
 import os
-
+import sys
 
 MKD_NOLINKS = 0x0001
 MKD_NOIMAGE = 0x0002
@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@
 class FILE(ctypes.Structure):
     pass
 
-
-ctypes.pythonapi.PyFile_AsFile.argtypes = (ctypes.py_object,)
-
-ctypes.pythonapi.PyFile_AsFile.restype = ctypes.POINTER(FILE)
+if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+    ctypes.pythonapi.PyFile_AsFile.argtypes = (ctypes.py_object,)
+    ctypes.pythonapi.PyFile_AsFile.restype = ctypes.POINTER(FILE)
 
 
 class Cstring(ctypes.Structure):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 93311bd..6f4ca82 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
+
 import os
 import posixpath
 import shutil
 import subprocess
-import urllib2
+
+try:
+    import urllib2
+except ImportError:
+    import urllib.request as urllib2
 
 from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext as _build_ext
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension
@@ -71,14 +77,14 @@ def build_extension(self, ext):
                 os.makedirs(self.build_temp)
 
             if not os.path.exists(filepath):
-                print 'Downloading %s...' % self.discount_download_url
+                print('Downloading %s...' % self.discount_download_url)
 
                 data = urllib2.urlopen(self.discount_download_url)
                 fp = open(filepath, 'wb')
                 fp.write(data.read())
                 fp.close()
 
-                print 'Extracting %s...' % filepath
+                print('Extracting %s...' % filepath)
 
                 subprocess.call(
                     ['tar', 'xzf', filepath, '-C', self.build_temp]