diff --git a/elementpath/compat.py b/elementpath/compat.py
index 2ed43541..da742772 100644
--- a/elementpath/compat.py
+++ b/elementpath/compat.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     string_base_type = str
     unicode_type = str
     unicode_chr = chr
+    from collections.abc import MutableSequence
 else:
     # noinspection PyCompatibility
     from urllib2 import URLError, quote as urllib_quote
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
     string_base_type = basestring
     unicode_type = unicode
     unicode_chr = unichr
-
+    from collections import MutableSequence
 
 
 def add_metaclass(metaclass):
diff --git a/elementpath/tdop_parser.py b/elementpath/tdop_parser.py
index 7aa2393b..a4e49716 100644
--- a/elementpath/tdop_parser.py
+++ b/elementpath/tdop_parser.py
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 from unicodedata import name as unicode_name
 from decimal import Decimal
 from abc import ABCMeta
-from collections import MutableSequence
-from .compat import PY3, add_metaclass
+
+from .compat import PY3, add_metaclass, MutableSequence
 from .exceptions import ElementPathSyntaxError, ElementPathNameError, ElementPathValueError, ElementPathTypeError
 
 ###
diff --git a/elementpath/xpath2_parser.py b/elementpath/xpath2_parser.py
index e05a9dc6..0050ce1a 100644
--- a/elementpath/xpath2_parser.py
+++ b/elementpath/xpath2_parser.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 """
 from itertools import product
 from abc import ABCMeta
-from collections import MutableSequence
 
+from .compat import MutableSequence
 from .exceptions import ElementPathError, ElementPathTypeError, ElementPathMissingContextError
 from .namespaces import XSD_NAMESPACE, XPATH_FUNCTIONS_NAMESPACE, XPATH_2_DEFAULT_NAMESPACES, \
     XSD_NOTATION, XSD_ANY_ATOMIC_TYPE, get_namespace, qname_to_prefixed, prefixed_to_qname