diff --git a/lib/gen_misc.py b/lib/gen_misc.py
index 84eb894..13db4c1 100755
--- a/lib/gen_misc.py
+++ b/lib/gen_misc.py
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
 import errno
 import os
 import ConfigParser
-import StringIO
+try:
+    from StringIO import StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    from io import StringIO
 import re
 import socket
 import tempfile