diff --git a/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/csv.py b/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/csv.py
index d42a15d61fb0d..0d4c5f1368052 100644
--- a/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/csv.py
+++ b/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/csv.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
 from pandas import DataFrame, Categorical, date_range, read_csv
-from pandas.compat import cStringIO as StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 
 from ..pandas_vb_common import BaseIO
 
diff --git a/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/excel.py b/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/excel.py
index 1bee864fbcf2d..2664cac89f2cf 100644
--- a/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/excel.py
+++ b/asv_bench/benchmarks/io/excel.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+from io import BytesIO
 import numpy as np
 from pandas import DataFrame, date_range, ExcelWriter, read_excel
-from pandas.compat import BytesIO
 import pandas.util.testing as tm