diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/__init__.py b/fanficfare/adapters/__init__.py
index cae72b6f..9e63abce 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/__init__.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/__init__.py
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 import os, re, sys, glob, types
 from os.path import dirname, basename, normpath
 import logging
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse as up
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 print(sys.path)
-from fanficfare.configurable import Configuration
 from .. import exceptions as exceptions
 
 
@@ -226,7 +225,7 @@ def getNormalStoryURL(url):
 def getNormalStoryURLSite(url):
     # print("getNormalStoryURLSite:%s"%url)
     if not getNormalStoryURL.__dummyconfig:
-        getNormalStoryURL.__dummyconfig = Configuration(["test1.com"],"EPUB",lightweight=True)
+        getNormalStoryURL.__dummyconfig = configurable.Configuration(["test1.com"],"EPUB",lightweight=True)
     # pulling up an adapter is pretty low over-head.  If
     # it fails, it's a bad url.
     try:
@@ -300,7 +299,7 @@ def _get_class_for(url):
     if not "#post-" in fixedurl:
         fixedurl = re.sub(r"#.*$","",fixedurl)
 
-    parsedUrl = up.urlparse(fixedurl)
+    parsedUrl = urlparse(fixedurl)
     domain = parsedUrl.netloc.lower()
     if( domain != parsedUrl.netloc ):
         fixedurl = fixedurl.replace(parsedUrl.netloc,domain)
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
index 745f2204..156764aa 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_test1.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 from .. import exceptions
 
-from base_adapter import BaseSiteAdapter,  makeDate
+from .base_adapter import BaseSiteAdapter,  makeDate
 
 class TestSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
 
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 329eda94..e62800c7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 import logging
-import urlparse as up
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
 from functools import partial
 import traceback
 import copy
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
 
     def _setURL(self,url):
         self.url = url
-        self.parsedUrl = up.urlparse(url)
+        self.parsedUrl = urlparse(url)
         self.host = self.parsedUrl.netloc
         self.path = self.parsedUrl.path
         self.story.setMetadata('storyUrl',self.url,condremoveentities=False)
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
                     if t.name=='script':
                         t.extract()
 
-        except AttributeError, ae:
+        except AttributeError as ae:
             if "%s"%ae != "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'next_element'":
                 logger.error("Error parsing HTML, probably poor input HTML. %s"%ae)
 
diff --git a/fanficfare/cli.py b/fanficfare/cli.py
index 4748b41f..6f9f5a7d 100644
--- a/fanficfare/cli.py
+++ b/fanficfare/cli.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import cookielib as cl
 version="2.27.12"
 os.environ['CURRENT_VERSION_ID']=version
 
+print("Python Version:%s"%sys.version)
 if sys.version_info < (2, 5) or sys.version_info > (3,0):
     print('This program requires Python 2.5 or newer.  Python 3 is not supported.')
     sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/fanficfare/cli3.py b/fanficfare/cli3.py
index f7ea7dc1..6a8106f7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/cli3.py
+++ b/fanficfare/cli3.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import http.cookiejar as cl
 
 version="2.27.8"
 
+print("Python Version:%s"%sys.version)
 if sys.version_info < (3,0):
     print('this program requires python 3 or newer.')
     sys.exit(1)