diff --git a/mercurial/pure/parsers.py b/mercurial/pure/parsers.py
--- a/mercurial/pure/parsers.py
+++ b/mercurial/pure/parsers.py
@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 # GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
 
-from mercurial.node import nullid
-import struct, zlib, cStringIO
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import cStringIO
+import struct
+import zlib
+
+from .node import nullid
 
 _pack = struct.pack
 _unpack = struct.unpack
diff --git a/tests/test-check-py3-compat.t b/tests/test-check-py3-compat.t
--- a/tests/test-check-py3-compat.t
+++ b/tests/test-check-py3-compat.t
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@
   mercurial/manifest.py not using absolute_import
   mercurial/mdiff.py not using absolute_import
   mercurial/patch.py not using absolute_import
-  mercurial/pure/parsers.py not using absolute_import
   mercurial/pvec.py not using absolute_import
   mercurial/py3kcompat.py not using absolute_import
   mercurial/revlog.py not using absolute_import