diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/memusage.py b/scrapy/contrib/memusage.py
index 4d4aae1c9..98dd15027 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/memusage.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/memusage.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ See documentation in docs/topics/extensions.rst
 
 import socket
 from pprint import pformat
+from importlib import import_module
 
 from twisted.internet import task
 
@@ -20,7 +21,8 @@ class MemoryUsage(object):
         if not crawler.settings.getbool('MEMUSAGE_ENABLED'):
             raise NotConfigured
         try:
-            self.resource = __import__('resource')
+            # stdlib's resource module is only availabe on unix platforms.
+            self.resource = import_module('resource')
         except ImportError:
             raise NotConfigured
 
diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index e7475c3d5..91b8d8b48 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Scrapy developers, if you add a setting here remember to:
 
 import os
 import sys
+from importlib import import_module
 from os.path import join, abspath, dirname
 
 BOT_NAME = 'scrapybot'
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ TEMPLATES_DIR = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates'))
 
 URLLENGTH_LIMIT = 2083
 
-USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/%s (+http://scrapy.org)' % __import__('scrapy').__version__
+USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/%s (+http://scrapy.org)' % import_module('scrapy').__version__
 
 TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = 1
 TELNETCONSOLE_PORT = [6023, 6073]
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_dependencies.py b/scrapy/tests/test_dependencies.py
index 51b9c3af3..03bf2ffcf 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_dependencies.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_dependencies.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+from importlib import import_module
 from twisted.trial import unittest
 
 class ScrapyUtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_required_openssl_version(self):
         try:
-            module = __import__('OpenSSL')
+            module = import_module('OpenSSL')
         except ImportError as ex:
             raise unittest.SkipTest("OpenSSL is not available")
 
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/test.py b/scrapy/utils/test.py
index c2d473e6f..ec9ca1c51 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/test.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/test.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ This module contains some assorted functions used in tests
 
 import os
 
+from importlib import import_module
 from twisted.trial.unittest import SkipTest
 
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ def get_crawler(settings_dict=None):
 def get_pythonpath():
     """Return a PYTHONPATH suitable to use in processes so that they find this
     installation of Scrapy"""
-    scrapy_path = __import__('scrapy').__path__[0]
+    scrapy_path = import_module('scrapy').__path__[0]
     return os.path.dirname(scrapy_path) + os.pathsep + os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH', '')
 
 def get_testenv():