diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index f4ce48046f08..b3a07617cd95 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import math
 import io
 import os
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 0b6293897211..26fc65690527 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import base64
 import datetime
 import itertools
diff --git a/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py b/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py
index 8868b37af645..8c5e53991774 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/PostProcessor.py
@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 6f9ffba1e1d7..e1d0eecc37ad 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-from __future__ import with_statement
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 __authors__  = (
     'Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez',
     'Danny Colligan',
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 54df689f2438..062f4cf1ebd5 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-
 import base64
 import os
 import re