diff --git a/openstack-common.conf b/openstack-common.conf
index fd948cad2..932266ea7 100644
--- a/openstack-common.conf
+++ b/openstack-common.conf
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 module=excutils
 module=importutils
 module=jsonutils
-module=py3kcompat
 module=timeutils
 module=uuidutils
 
diff --git a/taskflow/examples/example_utils.py b/taskflow/examples/example_utils.py
index da1f8a19e..3da680e2e 100644
--- a/taskflow/examples/example_utils.py
+++ b/taskflow/examples/example_utils.py
@@ -21,8 +21,9 @@ import shutil
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
+from six.moves import urllib_parse
+
 from taskflow import exceptions
-from taskflow.openstack.common.py3kcompat import urlutils
 from taskflow.persistence import backends
 
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ def rm_path(persist_path):
 
 
 def _make_conf(backend_uri):
-    parsed_url = urlutils.urlparse(backend_uri)
+    parsed_url = urllib_parse.urlparse(backend_uri)
     backend_type = parsed_url.scheme.lower()
     if not backend_type:
         raise ValueError("Unknown backend type for uri: %s" % (backend_type))
diff --git a/taskflow/openstack/common/py3kcompat/__init__.py b/taskflow/openstack/common/py3kcompat/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/taskflow/openstack/common/py3kcompat/urlutils.py b/taskflow/openstack/common/py3kcompat/urlutils.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 84e457a44..000000000
--- a/taskflow/openstack/common/py3kcompat/urlutils.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Copyright 2013 Canonical Ltd.
-# All Rights Reserved.
-#
-#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-#    a copy of the License at
-#
-#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-#    under the License.
-#
-
-"""
-Python2/Python3 compatibility layer for OpenStack
-"""
-
-import six
-
-if six.PY3:
-    # python3
-    import urllib.error
-    import urllib.parse
-    import urllib.request
-
-    urlencode = urllib.parse.urlencode
-    urljoin = urllib.parse.urljoin
-    quote = urllib.parse.quote
-    quote_plus = urllib.parse.quote_plus
-    parse_qsl = urllib.parse.parse_qsl
-    unquote = urllib.parse.unquote
-    unquote_plus = urllib.parse.unquote_plus
-    urlparse = urllib.parse.urlparse
-    urlsplit = urllib.parse.urlsplit
-    urlunsplit = urllib.parse.urlunsplit
-    SplitResult = urllib.parse.SplitResult
-
-    urlopen = urllib.request.urlopen
-    URLError = urllib.error.URLError
-    pathname2url = urllib.request.pathname2url
-else:
-    # python2
-    import urllib
-    import urllib2
-    import urlparse
-
-    urlencode = urllib.urlencode
-    quote = urllib.quote
-    quote_plus = urllib.quote_plus
-    unquote = urllib.unquote
-    unquote_plus = urllib.unquote_plus
-
-    parse = urlparse
-    parse_qsl = parse.parse_qsl
-    urljoin = parse.urljoin
-    urlparse = parse.urlparse
-    urlsplit = parse.urlsplit
-    urlunsplit = parse.urlunsplit
-    SplitResult = parse.SplitResult
-
-    urlopen = urllib2.urlopen
-    URLError = urllib2.URLError
-    pathname2url = urllib.pathname2url
diff --git a/taskflow/persistence/backends/__init__.py b/taskflow/persistence/backends/__init__.py
index 37e214af7..09a3101d0 100644
--- a/taskflow/persistence/backends/__init__.py
+++ b/taskflow/persistence/backends/__init__.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
 
 import logging
 
+from six.moves import urllib_parse
 from stevedore import driver
 
 from taskflow import exceptions as exc
-from taskflow.openstack.common.py3kcompat import urlutils
 
 
 # NOTE(harlowja): this is the entrypoint namespace, not the module namespace.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def fetch(conf, namespace=BACKEND_NAMESPACE):
-    backend_name = urlutils.urlparse(conf['connection']).scheme
+    backend_name = urllib_parse.urlparse(conf['connection']).scheme
     LOG.debug('Looking for %r backend driver in %r', backend_name, namespace)
     try:
         mgr = driver.DriverManager(namespace, backend_name,