diff --git a/PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py b/PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py
index 56b115f30..6c4d77b19 100644
--- a/PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/EpsImagePlugin.py
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ def Ghostscript(tile, size, fp, scale=1):
            float((72.0 * size[1]) / (bbox[3]-bbox[1])))
     # print("Ghostscript", scale, size, orig_size, bbox, orig_bbox, res)
 
-    import os
     import subprocess
     import tempfile
 
diff --git a/Tests/helper.py b/Tests/helper.py
index cbfad6f03..e6e5eee79 100644
--- a/Tests/helper.py
+++ b/Tests/helper.py
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ class PillowTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         outfile = self.tempfile("temp.png")
         if command_succeeds([IMCONVERT, f, outfile]):
-            from PIL import Image
             return Image.open(outfile)
         raise IOError()
 
@@ -179,7 +178,6 @@ py3 = (sys.version_info >= (3, 0))
 
 def fromstring(data):
     from io import BytesIO
-    from PIL import Image
     return Image.open(BytesIO(data))
 
 
@@ -191,7 +189,6 @@ def tostring(im, string_format, **options):
 
 
 def hopper(mode=None, cache={}):
-    from PIL import Image
     if mode is None:
         # Always return fresh not-yet-loaded version of image.
         # Operations on not-yet-loaded images is separate class of errors
diff --git a/Tests/test_file_gif.py b/Tests/test_file_gif.py
index d987f6851..7b01bcbd3 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_gif.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_gif.py
@@ -90,8 +90,6 @@ class TestFileGif(PillowTestCase):
         check(256, 511, 256)
 
     def test_optimize_full_l(self):
-        from io import BytesIO
-
         im = Image.frombytes("L", (16, 16), bytes(bytearray(range(256))))
         test_file = BytesIO()
         im.save(test_file, "GIF", optimize=True)
@@ -425,7 +423,7 @@ class TestFileGif(PillowTestCase):
         reloaded = Image.open(out)
 
         self.assertEqual(reloaded.info['transparency'], 253)
-        
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()