diff --git a/IPython/extensions/autoreload.py b/IPython/extensions/autoreload.py
index e674c27..6dc3ec7 100644
--- a/IPython/extensions/autoreload.py
+++ b/IPython/extensions/autoreload.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ import traceback
 import types
 import weakref
 from importlib import import_module
-
+from IPython.utils.py3compat import PY3
 try:
     # Reload is not defined by default in Python3.
     reload