diff --git a/docs/api/xmlstream/tostring.rst b/docs/api/xmlstream/tostring.rst
index 68abbdb638136c0e004a766cfb8e9a71c9392fd8..107e97b0d2b9c6cba7452f7533c6447cfec61bd9 100644
--- a/docs/api/xmlstream/tostring.rst
+++ b/docs/api/xmlstream/tostring.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ hides namespaces when able and does not introduce excessive namespace
 prefixes::
 
     >>> from slixmpp.xmlstream.tostring import tostring
-    >>> from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+    >>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
     >>> xml = ET.fromstring('<foo xmlns="bar"><baz /></foo>')
     >>> ET.tostring(xml)
     '<ns0:foo xmlns:ns0="bar"><ns0:baz /></foo>'
diff --git a/slixmpp/plugins/xep_0009/stanza/RPC.py b/slixmpp/plugins/xep_0009/stanza/RPC.py
index f8cec481d031ef188b2a878eb988b7217b79056e..542c839c5e54f288c77b03aa180b5faff1e60383 100644
--- a/slixmpp/plugins/xep_0009/stanza/RPC.py
+++ b/slixmpp/plugins/xep_0009/stanza/RPC.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 """
 
 from slixmpp.xmlstream.stanzabase import ElementBase
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 
 
 class RPCQuery(ElementBase):
diff --git a/slixmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py b/slixmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
index 3e45f613d37e65bb06542334c3ba4740ffd7926c..c3dbfb6770e2cd9b505af299410afffe243e0aa5 100644
--- a/slixmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
+++ b/slixmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from __future__ import with_statement, unicode_literals
 import copy
 import logging
 import weakref
-from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 
 from slixmpp.xmlstream import JID
 from slixmpp.xmlstream.tostring import tostring
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ class ElementBase(object):
 
     """
     The core of Slixmpp's stanza XML manipulation and handling is provided
-    by ElementBase. ElementBase wraps XML cElementTree objects and enables
+    by ElementBase. ElementBase wraps XML ElementTree objects and enables
     access to the XML contents through dictionary syntax, similar in style
     to the Ruby XMPP library Blather's stanza implementation.
 
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ class ElementBase(object):
         self._index = 0
 
         #: The underlying XML object for the stanza. It is a standard
-        #: :class:`xml.etree.cElementTree` object.
+        #: :class:`xml.etree.ElementTree` object.
         self.xml = xml
 
         #: An ordered dictionary of plugin stanzas, mapped by their