diff --git a/Lib/email/parser.py b/Lib/email/parser.py
index 1aab0121153..752bf35a6e1 100644
--- a/Lib/email/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/parser.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import warnings
 from io import StringIO, TextIOWrapper
 
-from email.feedparser import FeedParser
+from email.feedparser import FeedParser, BytesFeedParser
 from email.message import Message
 from email._policybase import compat32
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
index 23f062fd80d..eaed26f844f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
 from test.support import unlink
 from test.test_email import openfile, TestEmailBase
 
+# These imports are documented to work, but we are testing them using a
+# different path, so we import them here just to make sure they are importable.
+from email.parser import FeedParser, BytesFeedParser
+
 NL = '\n'
 EMPTYSTRING = ''
 SPACE = ' '
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 7b5c1064657..537c0973f63 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ Jan-Hein Bührman
 Dick Bulterman
 Bill Bumgarner
 Jimmy Burgett
+Edmond Burnett
 Tommy Burnette
 Roger Burnham
 Alastair Burt
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 56141064eb5..21d1bc30271 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17431: Fix missing import of BytesFeedParser in email.parser.
+
 - Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
   urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes().