diff --git a/spacy/tests/parser/test_preset_sbd.py b/spacy/tests/parser/test_preset_sbd.py
index fa31486ea..77326f797 100644
--- a/spacy/tests/parser/test_preset_sbd.py
+++ b/spacy/tests/parser/test_preset_sbd.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 '''Test that the parser respects preset sentence boundaries.'''
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import pytest
 from thinc.neural.optimizers import Adam
 from thinc.neural.ops import NumpyOps