diff --git a/Lib/test/test_capi/test_dict.py b/Lib/test/test_capi/test_dict.py
index bcc978d224a..e726e3d813d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_capi/test_dict.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_capi/test_dict.py
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 from collections import OrderedDict, UserDict
 from types import MappingProxyType
 from test import support
-import _testcapi
-import _testlimitedcapi
+from test.support import import_helper
+
+
+_testcapi = import_helper.import_module("_testcapi")
+_testlimitedcapi = import_helper.import_module("_testlimitedcapi")
 
 
 NULL = None