diff --git a/IPython/core/formatters.py b/IPython/core/formatters.py
index 6d94c26..1f59c3d 100644
--- a/IPython/core/formatters.py
+++ b/IPython/core/formatters.py
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ Authors:
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Stdlib imports
-import sys
 import abc
+import sys
 # We must use StringIO, as cStringIO doesn't handle unicode properly.
 from StringIO import StringIO