diff --git a/glance_store/_drivers/vmware_datastore.py b/glance_store/_drivers/vmware_datastore.py
index 2ac2413d..f9788061 100644
--- a/glance_store/_drivers/vmware_datastore.py
+++ b/glance_store/_drivers/vmware_datastore.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ from oslo.vmware import constants
 from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_utils import excutils
 from oslo_utils import units
+# NOTE(jokke): simplified transition to py3, behaves like py2 xrange
+from six.moves import range
 import six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse
 
 import glance_store
diff --git a/glance_store/common/auth.py b/glance_store/common/auth.py
index 76801cd4..790cb0b3 100644
--- a/glance_store/common/auth.py
+++ b/glance_store/common/auth.py
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ import httplib2
 import logging
 
 from oslo.serialization import jsonutils
+# NOTE(jokke): simplified transition to py3, behaves like py2 xrange
+from six.moves import range
 import six.moves.urllib.parse as urlparse
 
 from glance_store import exceptions
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_filesystem_store.py b/tests/unit/test_filesystem_store.py
index f237a605..ac72e897 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_filesystem_store.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_filesystem_store.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ import uuid
 import fixtures
 from oslo_utils import units
 import six
+# NOTE(jokke): simplified transition to py3, behaves like py2 xrange
+from six.moves import range
 
 from glance_store._drivers.filesystem import ChunkedFile
 from glance_store._drivers.filesystem import Store
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_swift_store.py b/tests/unit/test_swift_store.py
index e5579477..1e38313b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_swift_store.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_swift_store.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ from oslo_config import cfg
 from oslo_utils import units
 from oslotest import moxstubout
 import six
+# NOTE(jokke): simplified transition to py3, behaves like py2 xrange
+from six.moves import range
 import StringIO
 import swiftclient