diff --git a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
index 8a63535e2fc..52bd5c7d00a 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_minidom.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # test for xml.dom.minidom
 
 from xml.dom.minidom import parse, Node, Document, parseString
+import xml.parsers.expat
 
 import os.path
 import sys