diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index 793d5cf45d..94a32a6393 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -86,11 +86,15 @@ def compile_recipe(src):
         match = re.search(r'coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)', src[:200])
         enc = match.group(1) if match else 'utf-8'
         src = src.decode(enc)
+    src = re.sub(r'from __future__.*', '', src)
     f = open(temp, 'wb')
     src = 'from %s.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe, AutomaticNewsRecipe\n'%__appname__ + src
     src = 'from %s.ebooks.lrf.web.profiles import DefaultProfile, FullContentProfile\n'%__appname__ + src
     src = '# coding: utf-8\n' + src
-    f.write(src.replace('from libprs500', 'from calibre').encode('utf-8'))
+    src = 'from __future__ import with_statement\n' + src
+    
+    src = src.replace('from libprs500', 'from calibre').encode('utf-8')
+    f.write(src)
     f.close()
     module = imp.find_module(temp.namebase, [temp.dirname()])
     module = imp.load_module(temp.namebase, *module)