diff --git a/sleekxmpp/test/sleektest.py b/sleekxmpp/test/sleektest.py
index fa53bf73..89e3712f 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/test/sleektest.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/test/sleektest.py
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ class SleekTest(unittest.TestCase):
         # Apply closing elements so that we can construct
         # XML objects for comparison.
         header2 = header + '</stream:stream>'
-        sent_header2 = sent_header + '</stream:stream>'
+        sent_header2 = sent_header + b'</stream:stream>'
 
         xml = self.parse_xml(header2)
         sent_xml = self.parse_xml(sent_header2)
diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/__init__.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/__init__.py
index 09514958..981f052d 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/__init__.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.jid import JID
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.scheduler import Scheduler
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.stanzabase import StanzaBase, ElementBase, ET
-from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.statemachine import StateMachine
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.tostring import tostring
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream import XMLStream, RESPONSE_TIMEOUT
 from sleekxmpp.xmlstream.xmlstream import RestartStream