diff --git a/contrib/simplemerge b/contrib/simplemerge
--- a/contrib/simplemerge
+++ b/contrib/simplemerge
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from mercurial import demandimport
 demandimport.enable()
 
+import getopt
 import sys
 from mercurial.i18n import _
 from mercurial import error, simplemerge, fancyopts, util, ui
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ try:
     opts = {}
     try:
         args = fancyopts.fancyopts(sys.argv[1:], options, opts)
-    except fancyopts.getopt.GetoptError as e:
+    except getopt.GetoptError as e:
         raise ParseError(e)
     if opts['help']:
         showhelp()
diff --git a/mercurial/dispatch.py b/mercurial/dispatch.py
--- a/mercurial/dispatch.py
+++ b/mercurial/dispatch.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, 
 import atexit
 import difflib
 import errno
+import getopt
 import os
 import pdb
 import re
@@ -448,7 +449,7 @@ def _parse(ui, args):
 
     try:
         args = fancyopts.fancyopts(args, commands.globalopts, options)
-    except fancyopts.getopt.GetoptError as inst:
+    except getopt.GetoptError as inst:
         raise error.CommandError(None, inst)
 
     if args:
@@ -471,7 +472,7 @@ def _parse(ui, args):
 
     try:
         args = fancyopts.fancyopts(args, c, cmdoptions, gnu=True)
-    except fancyopts.getopt.GetoptError as inst:
+    except getopt.GetoptError as inst:
         raise error.CommandError(cmd, inst)
 
     # separate global options back out
@@ -601,7 +602,7 @@ def _checkshellalias(lui, ui, args):
 
     try:
         args = fancyopts.fancyopts(args, commands.globalopts, options)
-    except fancyopts.getopt.GetoptError:
+    except getopt.GetoptError:
         return
 
     if not args: