diff --git a/bin/build_sdb.py b/bin/build_sdb.py
index b2741870..d0e2f8e4 100755
--- a/bin/build_sdb.py
+++ b/bin/build_sdb.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Tool for building Sample Databases (SDB files) from DeepSpeech CSV files and other SDB files
 Use "python3 build_sdb.py -h" for help
 """
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import argparse
 
 import progressbar
diff --git a/bin/import_aidatatang.py b/bin/import_aidatatang.py
index 5563b446..c53eba09 100755
--- a/bin/import_aidatatang.py
+++ b/bin/import_aidatatang.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import glob
 import os
 import tarfile
diff --git a/bin/import_aishell.py b/bin/import_aishell.py
index 2867e658..341d0d88 100755
--- a/bin/import_aishell.py
+++ b/bin/import_aishell.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import glob
 import os
 import tarfile
diff --git a/bin/import_cv.py b/bin/import_cv.py
index 80f9897e..e4251c1a 100755
--- a/bin/import_cv.py
+++ b/bin/import_cv.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import csv
 import os
 import subprocess
diff --git a/bin/import_cv2.py b/bin/import_cv2.py
index bf9850e3..df098f5c 100755
--- a/bin/import_cv2.py
+++ b/bin/import_cv2.py
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ and the script formats the data and transcripts to be in a state usable by
 DeepSpeech.py
 Use "python3 import_cv2.py -h" for help
 """
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import csv
 import os
 import subprocess
diff --git a/bin/import_fisher.py b/bin/import_fisher.py
index 22ccb4d3..0634c860 100755
--- a/bin/import_fisher.py
+++ b/bin/import_fisher.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import codecs
 import fnmatch
 import os
diff --git a/bin/import_freestmandarin.py b/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
index 581ad9e7..55ce9128 100755
--- a/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
+++ b/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import glob
 import os
 import tarfile
diff --git a/bin/import_ldc93s1.py b/bin/import_ldc93s1.py
index 14523ce2..86a00d74 100755
--- a/bin/import_ldc93s1.py
+++ b/bin/import_ldc93s1.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import os
 import sys
 
diff --git a/bin/import_librivox.py b/bin/import_librivox.py
index 687872c8..32c1d20a 100755
--- a/bin/import_librivox.py
+++ b/bin/import_librivox.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import codecs
 import fnmatch
 import os
diff --git a/bin/import_lingua_libre.py b/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
index a72934b8..5840b02f 100755
--- a/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
+++ b/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import argparse
 import csv
 import os
diff --git a/bin/import_m-ailabs.py b/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
index 16dd30d7..3f04eeb1 100755
--- a/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
+++ b/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import csv
 import os
 import subprocess
diff --git a/bin/import_magicdata.py b/bin/import_magicdata.py
index 2ef7c8e0..c8502784 100755
--- a/bin/import_magicdata.py
+++ b/bin/import_magicdata.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import glob
 import os
 import tarfile
diff --git a/bin/import_primewords.py b/bin/import_primewords.py
index 6aa56fbe..08f3302a 100755
--- a/bin/import_primewords.py
+++ b/bin/import_primewords.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import glob
 import json
 import os
diff --git a/bin/import_slr57.py b/bin/import_slr57.py
index b185282e..1aa0e4d2 100755
--- a/bin/import_slr57.py
+++ b/bin/import_slr57.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import csv
 import os
 import re
diff --git a/bin/import_swb.py b/bin/import_swb.py
index 6b63cb00..11e43f31 100755
--- a/bin/import_swb.py
+++ b/bin/import_swb.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 # ensure that you have downloaded the LDC dataset LDC97S62 and tar exists in a folder e.g.
 # ./data/swb/swb1_LDC97S62.tgz
 # from the deepspeech directory run with: ./bin/import_swb.py ./data/swb/
diff --git a/bin/import_swc.py b/bin/import_swc.py
index 71fef12f..abd0889f 100755
--- a/bin/import_swc.py
+++ b/bin/import_swc.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 Downloads and prepares (parts of) the "Spoken Wikipedia Corpora" for DeepSpeech.py
 Use "python3 import_swc.py -h" for help
 """
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import argparse
 import csv
diff --git a/bin/import_ted.py b/bin/import_ted.py
index c3859e6c..bad1452f 100755
--- a/bin/import_ted.py
+++ b/bin/import_ted.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import sys
 import tarfile
 import unicodedata
diff --git a/bin/import_ts.py b/bin/import_ts.py
index 9bf2e81d..86f5eab7 100755
--- a/bin/import_ts.py
+++ b/bin/import_ts.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import csv
 import os
 import re
diff --git a/bin/import_tuda.py b/bin/import_tuda.py
index 3d2633ba..fa48de61 100755
--- a/bin/import_tuda.py
+++ b/bin/import_tuda.py
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 Downloads and prepares (parts of) the "German Distant Speech" corpus (TUDA) for DeepSpeech.py
 Use "python3 import_tuda.py -h" for help
 """
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import argparse
 import csv
 import os
diff --git a/bin/import_vctk.py b/bin/import_vctk.py
index 05ce1dfb..f9c86799 100755
--- a/bin/import_vctk.py
+++ b/bin/import_vctk.py
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 # VCTK used in wavenet paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf
 # Licenced under Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0.
 # as per https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jyamagis/page3/page58/page58.html
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import os
 import random
 import re
diff --git a/bin/import_voxforge.py b/bin/import_voxforge.py
index 5cc0f467..18e7661d 100755
--- a/bin/import_voxforge.py
+++ b/bin/import_voxforge.py
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
-
 import codecs
 import os
 import re
diff --git a/bin/play.py b/bin/play.py
index 66196c3e..9774732e 100755
--- a/bin/play.py
+++ b/bin/play.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 Tool for playing samples from Sample Databases (SDB files) and DeepSpeech CSV files
 Use "python3 build_sdb.py -h" for help
 """
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import argparse
 import random