diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 446500b..8257b61 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'
# Attempt to enable urllib3's SNI support, if possible
try:
- from .packages.urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
+ from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
except ImportError:
pass
diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index 02e0dd1..daae42e 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ and maintain connections.
import socket
from .models import Response
-from .packages.urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
-from .packages.urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
-from .packages.urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
-from .packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
+from urllib3.poolmanager import PoolManager, proxy_from_url
+from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
+from urllib3.util import Timeout as TimeoutSauce
+from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
from .compat import urlparse, basestring
from .utils import (DEFAULT_CA_BUNDLE_PATH, get_encoding_from_headers,
prepend_scheme_if_needed, get_auth_from_url, urldefragauth)
from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ConnectTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as _HTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import MaxRetryError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProxyError as _ProxyError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ProtocolError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError
+from urllib3.exceptions import SSLError as _SSLError
+from urllib3.exceptions import ResponseError
from .cookies import extract_cookies_to_jar
from .exceptions import (ConnectionError, ConnectTimeout, ReadTimeout, SSLError,
ProxyError, RetryError)
diff --git a/requests/compat.py b/requests/compat.py
index 40bb6c5..4232288 100644
--- a/requests/compat.py
+++ b/requests/compat.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
pythoncompat
"""
-from .packages import chardet
+import chardet
import sys
diff --git a/requests/exceptions.py b/requests/exceptions.py
index 89135a8..b70c525 100644
--- a/requests/exceptions.py
+++ b/requests/exceptions.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ requests.exceptions
This module contains the set of Requests' exceptions.
"""
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
+from urllib3.exceptions import HTTPError as BaseHTTPError
class RequestException(IOError):
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 419cf0a..131b88d 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
from .auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from .cookies import cookiejar_from_dict, get_cookie_header
-from .packages.urllib3.fields import RequestField
-from .packages.urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
-from .packages.urllib3.util import parse_url
-from .packages.urllib3.exceptions import (
+from urllib3.fields import RequestField
+from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
+from urllib3.util import parse_url
+from urllib3.exceptions import (
DecodeError, ReadTimeoutError, ProtocolError, LocationParseError)
from .exceptions import (
HTTPError, MissingSchema, InvalidURL, ChunkedEncodingError,
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index 9a51f33..22bd226 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from .hooks import default_hooks, dispatch_hook
from .utils import to_key_val_list, default_headers, to_native_string, DEFAULT_PORTS
from .exceptions import (
TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema, ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError)
-from .packages.urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
+from urllib3._collections import RecentlyUsedContainer
from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
from .adapters import HTTPAdapter