diff --git a/IPython/core/crashhandler.py b/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
index c85c766..a6a74e8 100644
--- a/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
+++ b/IPython/core/crashhandler.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from pprint import pformat
 from IPython.core import ultratb
 from IPython.core.release import author_email
 from IPython.utils.sysinfo import sys_info
-from IPython.utils.py3compat import input, getcwd
+from IPython.utils.py3compat import input
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Code
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ class CrashHandler(object):
         try:
             rptdir = self.app.ipython_dir
         except:
-            rptdir = getcwd()
+            rptdir = os.getcwd()
         if rptdir is None or not os.path.isdir(rptdir):
-            rptdir = getcwd()
+            rptdir = os.getcwd()
         report_name = os.path.join(rptdir,self.crash_report_fname)
         # write the report filename into the instance dict so it can get
         # properly expanded out in the user message template
diff --git a/IPython/testing/plugin/ipdoctest.py b/IPython/testing/plugin/ipdoctest.py
index 2d4dd9b..841ccdf 100644
--- a/IPython/testing/plugin/ipdoctest.py
+++ b/IPython/testing/plugin/ipdoctest.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ from nose.plugins import doctests, Plugin
 from nose.util import anyp, tolist
 
 # Our own imports
-from IPython.utils.py3compat import builtin_mod, PY3, getcwd
+from IPython.utils.py3compat import builtin_mod, PY3
 
 if PY3:
     from io import StringIO
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ class DocTestCase(doctests.DocTestCase):
             # Save our current directory and switch out to the one where the
             # test was originally created, in case another doctest did a
             # directory change.  We'll restore this in the finally clause.
-            curdir = getcwd()
+            curdir = os.getcwd()
             #print 'runTest in dir:', self._ori_dir  # dbg
             os.chdir(self._ori_dir)