diff --git a/tests/svnxml.py b/tests/svnxml.py
--- a/tests/svnxml.py
+++ b/tests/svnxml.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # Read the output of a "svn log --xml" command on stdin, parse it and
 # print a subset of attributes common to all svn versions tested by
 # hg.
-import xml.dom.minidom, sys
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import sys
+import xml.dom.minidom
 
 def xmltext(e):
     return ''.join(c.data for c
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
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
   tests/readlink.py requires print_function
   tests/run-tests.py not using absolute_import
   tests/svn-safe-append.py not using absolute_import
-  tests/svnxml.py not using absolute_import
   tests/test-atomictempfile.py not using absolute_import
   tests/test-demandimport.py not using absolute_import
   tests/test-demandimport.py requires print_function