diff --git a/sphinxtogithub/__init__.py b/sphinxtogithub/__init__.py
index e767027..dabcb6c 100644
--- a/sphinxtogithub/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinxtogithub/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Script for preparing the html output of the Sphinx documentation system for
 github pages. """
+from __future__  import absolute_import, division, unicode_literals
 
 VERSION = (1, 1, 0, 'dev')
 
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@
 __homepage__ = "http://github.com/michaeljones/sphinx-to-github"
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext"
 
-from sphinxtogithub import (
+from .sphinxtogithub import (
     setup,
     sphinx_extension,
     LayoutFactory,
@@ -26,4 +27,3 @@
     OperationsFactory,
     HandlerFactory
 )
-
diff --git a/sphinxtogithub/sphinxtogithub.py b/sphinxtogithub/sphinxtogithub.py
index b0d388e..4d0b830 100644
--- a/sphinxtogithub/sphinxtogithub.py
+++ b/sphinxtogithub/sphinxtogithub.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
- 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
 from optparse import OptionParser
 
 import os
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 import codecs
 
 
+def stdout(msg):
+    sys.stdout.write(msg + '\n')
+
+
 class DirHelper(object):
 
     def __init__(self, is_dir, list_dir, walk, rmtree):
@@ -276,12 +280,14 @@ def sphinx_extension(app, exception):
 
     if not app.config.sphinx_to_github:
         if app.config.sphinx_to_github_verbose:
-            print "Sphinx-to-github: Disabled, doing nothing."
+            stdout("Sphinx-to-github: Disabled, doing nothing.")
         return
 
     if exception:
         if app.config.sphinx_to_github_verbose:
-            print "Sphinx-to-github: Exception raised in main build, doing nothing."
+            msg = ("Sphinx-to-github: "
+                   "Exception raised in main build, doing nothing.")
+            stdout(msg)
         return
 
     dir_helper = DirHelper(