diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 572bb84..ae58a6e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 dist
 /env/
+/venv/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ever2simple/converter.py b/ever2simple/converter.py
index 4a3f849..d608e9c 100644
--- a/ever2simple/converter.py
+++ b/ever2simple/converter.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import os
 import sys
 from csv import DictWriter
-from cStringIO import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 from dateutil.parser import parse
 from html2text import HTML2Text
 from lxml import etree
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ def _load_xml(self, enex_file):
         try:
             parser = etree.XMLParser(huge_tree=True)
             xml_tree = etree.parse(enex_file, parser)
-        except (etree.XMLSyntaxError, ), e:
-            print 'Could not parse XML'
-            print e
+        except etree.XMLSyntaxError as e:
+            print('Could not parse XML')
+            print(e)
             sys.exit(1)
         return xml_tree
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def prepare_notes(self, xml_tree):
 
     def convert(self):
         if not os.path.exists(self.enex_filename):
-            print "File does not exist: %s" % self.enex_filename
+            print("File does not exist: %s" % self.enex_filename )
             sys.exit(1)
         # TODO: use with here, but pyflakes barfs on it
         enex_file = open(self.enex_filename)
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def _convert_dir(self, notes):
             sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(notes))
         else:
             if os.path.exists(self.simple_filename) and not os.path.isdir(self.simple_filename):
-                print '"%s" exists but is not a directory. %s' % self.simple_filename
+                print('"%s" exists but is not a directory. %s' % self.simple_filename)
                 sys.exit(1)
             elif not os.path.exists(self.simple_filename):
                 os.makedirs(self.simple_filename)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 07936af..7b898e2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     zip_safe=False,
     install_requires=[
         'lxml',
-        'python-dateutil<2.0',
+        'python-dateutil',
         'html2text',
     ],
     entry_points="""