diff --git a/src/calibre/srv/tests/auth.py b/src/calibre/srv/tests/auth.py
index c837a0eddd..587fbd6d6b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/srv/tests/auth.py
+++ b/src/calibre/srv/tests/auth.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import subprocess
 import time
 from collections import namedtuple
 from http.cookiejar import CookieJar
+from urllib.error import HTTPError
 
 from calibre.constants import ismacos
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ from calibre.srv.routes import Router, endpoint
 from calibre.srv.tests.base import BaseTest, TestServer
 from polyglot.binary import as_base64_bytes
 from polyglot.builtins import itervalues
-from polyglot.urllib import HTTPBasicAuthHandler, HTTPCookieProcessor, HTTPDigestAuthHandler, HTTPError, build_opener
+from polyglot.urllib import HTTPBasicAuthHandler, HTTPCookieProcessor, HTTPDigestAuthHandler, build_opener
 
 REALM = 'calibre-test'
 is_ci = os.environ.get('CI', '').lower() == 'true'
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
index 914d7502d8..389c20066b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import time
 import traceback
 from base64 import standard_b64decode
 from http.client import responses
+from urllib.error import URLError
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
 from calibre import browser, relpath, unicode_path
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ from calibre.utils.imghdr import what
 from calibre.utils.localization import _
 from calibre.utils.logging import Log
 from calibre.web.fetch.utils import rescale_image
-from polyglot.urllib import URLError, quote, url2pathname, urljoin, urlparse, urlsplit, urlunparse, urlunsplit
+from polyglot.urllib import quote, url2pathname, urljoin, urlparse, urlsplit, urlunparse, urlunsplit
 
 
 class AbortArticle(Exception):