diff --git a/jedi/common.py b/jedi/common.py
index ebd1f25d..04d17a5d 100644
--- a/jedi/common.py
+++ b/jedi/common.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import sys
 import contextlib
 import functools
-import tokenize
+import tokenizer as tokenize
 
 from jedi._compatibility import next, reraise
 from jedi import debug
diff --git a/jedi/modules.py b/jedi/modules.py
index e67cc2c3..3301eba7 100644
--- a/jedi/modules.py
+++ b/jedi/modules.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Apart from those classes there's a ``sys.path`` fetching function, as well as
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import re
-import tokenize
+import tokenizer as tokenize
 import sys
 import os
 
diff --git a/jedi/parsing.py b/jedi/parsing.py
index e5279f71..2241b12d 100644
--- a/jedi/parsing.py
+++ b/jedi/parsing.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ complexity of the ``Parser`` (there's another parser sitting inside
 """
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
-import tokenize
+import tokenizer as tokenize
 import keyword
 
 from jedi._compatibility import next, StringIO
diff --git a/jedi/parsing_representation.py b/jedi/parsing_representation.py
index d4b8380c..a7dc9545 100644
--- a/jedi/parsing_representation.py
+++ b/jedi/parsing_representation.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import os
 import re
-import tokenize
+import tokenizer as tokenize
 
 from jedi._compatibility import next, literal_eval, cleandoc, Python3Method, \
                             encoding, property, unicode, is_py3k