diff -r 80214358ac88 -r 9a17576103a4 mercurial/pure/mpatch.py
--- a/mercurial/pure/mpatch.py	Sat Dec 12 13:35:41 2015 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/pure/mpatch.py	Sat Dec 12 13:37:56 2015 -0500
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
 # This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 # GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import cStringIO
 import struct
-try:
-    from cStringIO import StringIO
-except ImportError:
-    from StringIO import StringIO
+
+StringIO = cStringIO.StringIO
 
 # This attempts to apply a series of patches in time proportional to
 # the total size of the patches, rather than patches * len(text). This