diff --git a/readability/htmls.py b/readability/htmls.py
index 843f0c0..82b9599 100644
--- a/readability/htmls.py
+++ b/readability/htmls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
from lxml.html import tostring
-import logging
import lxml.html
-import re, sys
+import re
from .cleaners import normalize_spaces, clean_attributes
from .encoding import get_encoding
diff --git a/readability/readability.py b/readability/readability.py
index b0323b3..1b593b9 100755
--- a/readability/readability.py
+++ b/readability/readability.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import logging
import re
import sys
-from collections import defaultdict
from lxml.etree import tostring
from lxml.etree import tounicode
from lxml.html import document_fromstring