diff --git a/alerts/celeryconfig.py b/alerts/celeryconfig.py
index cdf396c3..60db6659 100644
--- a/alerts/celeryconfig.py
+++ b/alerts/celeryconfig.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ for alert_namespace in CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE:
         alert_class = getattr(alert_module, alert_classname)
         app.register_task(alert_class())
     except ImportError as e:
-        print("Error importing {}").format(alert_namespace)
+        print("Error importing {}".format(alert_namespace))
         print(e)
         pass
     except Exception as e:
diff --git a/benchmarking/workers/json2Mozdef.py b/benchmarking/workers/json2Mozdef.py
index c531b629..eaf5ed30 100755
--- a/benchmarking/workers/json2Mozdef.py
+++ b/benchmarking/workers/json2Mozdef.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from optparse import OptionParser
 from requests_futures.sessions import FuturesSession
 from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
 import logging
-from Queue import Empty
+from queue import Empty
 from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import ClosedPoolError
 import time
 
diff --git a/cron/update_geolite_db.py b/cron/update_geolite_db.py
index a2274b37..a04d3474 100755
--- a/cron/update_geolite_db.py
+++ b/cron/update_geolite_db.py
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import sys
 import os
 from configlib import getConfig, OptionParser
 
-import urllib2
+import urllib.request
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.parse
 import tempfile
 import tarfile
 
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ from mozdef_util.utilities.logger import logger, initLogger
 
 def fetch_db_data(db_download_location):
     logger.debug('Fetching db data from ' + db_download_location)
-    response = urllib2.urlopen(db_download_location)
+    response = urllib.request.urlopen(db_download_location)
     db_raw_data = response.read()
     with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='wb') as temp:
         logger.debug('Writing compressed gzip to temp file: ' + temp.name)
diff --git a/examples/demo/sampleData2MozDef.py b/examples/demo/sampleData2MozDef.py
index 761eb2b4..d1150b1b 100755
--- a/examples/demo/sampleData2MozDef.py
+++ b/examples/demo/sampleData2MozDef.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import json
 from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
 import random
 import logging
-from Queue import Empty
+from queue import Empty
 import requests
 import time
 from configlib import getConfig, OptionParser
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def postLogs(logcache):
                 a=httpsession.get_adapter(url)
                 a.max_retries=3
                 r=httpsession.post(url,data=postdata)
-                print(r, postdata)
+                print(r)
                 # append to posts if this is long running and you want
                 # events to try again later.
                 # posts.append((r,postdata,url))
diff --git a/mq/esworker_cloudtrail.py b/mq/esworker_cloudtrail.py
index 1625d0f4..2c458f1a 100755
--- a/mq/esworker_cloudtrail.py
+++ b/mq/esworker_cloudtrail.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import boto.sts
 import boto.s3
 from boto.sqs.message import RawMessage
 import gzip
-from StringIO import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 import re
 import time
 import kombu
diff --git a/mq/esworker_eventtask.py b/mq/esworker_eventtask.py
index a142a07f..f5c99233 100755
--- a/mq/esworker_eventtask.py
+++ b/mq/esworker_eventtask.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def keyMapping(aDict):
                     returndict['details']['message'] = v
                 else:
                     if len(v) > 0:
-                        for details_key, details_value in v.iteritems():
+                        for details_key, details_value in v.items():
                             returndict['details'][details_key] = details_value
 
             # custom fields/details as a one off, not in an array