diff --git a/IPython/utils/getargspec.py b/traitlets/getargspec.py
similarity index 100%
rename from IPython/utils/getargspec.py
rename to traitlets/getargspec.py
diff --git a/traitlets/traitlets.py b/traitlets/traitlets.py
index ef1b514..44eb108 100644
--- a/traitlets/traitlets.py
+++ b/traitlets/traitlets.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ except:
 from warnings import warn
 
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
-from IPython.utils.getargspec import getargspec
+from .getargspec import getargspec
 from IPython.utils.importstring import import_item
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import iteritems, string_types