diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7e99e36..7f987b7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
+*.pyc
+build/
+dist/
+django_articles.*/
diff --git a/articles/__init__.py b/articles/__init__.py
index bece0f0..0652866 100644
--- a/articles/__init__.py
+++ b/articles/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
 __version__ = '2.4.2'
 
-from articles.directives import *
-try:
-    import listeners
-except ImportError:
-    # this happens when setup.py is grabbing __version__; nothing to worry
-    # about
-    pass
+from .directives import *
diff --git a/articles/admin.py b/articles/admin.py
index 751dcbb..372b142 100644
--- a/articles/admin.py
+++ b/articles/admin.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
-from forms import ArticleAdminForm
-from models import Tag, Article, ArticleStatus, Attachment
+from .forms import ArticleAdminForm
+from .models import Tag, Article, ArticleStatus, Attachment
 
 log = logging.getLogger('articles.admin')
 
diff --git a/articles/directives.py b/articles/directives.py
index bdecbea..696fc5e 100644
--- a/articles/directives.py
+++ b/articles/directives.py
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 # Options
 # ~~~~~~~
 
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ def pygments_directive(name, arguments, options, content, lineno,
             lexer = TextLexer()
         # take an arbitrary option if more than one is given
         formatter = options and VARIANTS[options.keys()[0]] or DEFAULT
-        parsed = highlight(u'\n'.join(content), lexer, formatter)
+        parsed = highlight('\n'.join(content), lexer, formatter)
         parsed = '<div class="codeblock">%s</div>' % parsed
         return [nodes.raw('', parsed, format='html')]
 
diff --git a/articles/feeds.py b/articles/feeds.py
index cde8c33..c4c4bcf 100644
--- a/articles/feeds.py
+++ b/articles/feeds.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
 from django.utils.feedgenerator import Atom1Feed
 
-from articles.models import Article, Tag
+from .models import Article, Tag
 
 # default to 24 hours for feed caching
 FEED_TIMEOUT = getattr(settings, 'ARTICLE_FEED_TIMEOUT', 86400)
diff --git a/articles/forms.py b/articles/forms.py
index 8be2d70..dde1228 100644
--- a/articles/forms.py
+++ b/articles/forms.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from django import forms
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
-from models import Article, Tag
+from .models import Article, Tag
 
 log = logging.getLogger('articles.forms')
 
diff --git a/articles/listeners.py b/articles/listeners.py
index 362c23c..ca954ba 100644
--- a/articles/listeners.py
+++ b/articles/listeners.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 from django.db.models import signals, Q
 
-from decorators import logtime
-from models import Article, Tag
+from .decorators import logtime
+from .models import Article, Tag
 
 log = logging.getLogger('articles.listeners')
 
diff --git a/articles/management/commands/check_for_articles_from_email.py b/articles/management/commands/check_for_articles_from_email.py
index 9761fa7..aee42f2 100644
--- a/articles/management/commands/check_for_articles_from_email.py
+++ b/articles/management/commands/check_for_articles_from_email.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from base64 import b64decode
 from datetime import datetime
 from email.parser import FeedParser
@@ -112,7 +114,7 @@ def connect(self):
 
             M.login(self.username, self.password)
             M.select()
-        except socket.error, err:
+        except socket.error as err:
             raise
         else:
             return M
@@ -165,7 +167,7 @@ def connect(self):
 
             M.user(self.username)
             M.pass_(self.password)
-        except socket.error, err:
+        except socket.error as err:
             raise
         else:
             return M
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
 
     def log(self, message, level=2):
         if self.verbosity >= level:
-            print message
+            print(message)
 
     def handle(self, *args, **options):
         """Main entry point for the command"""
@@ -317,7 +319,7 @@ def create_articles(self, emails):
             try:
                 # try to grab the timestamp from the email message
                 publish_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(parsedate(email['Date'])))
-            except StandardError, err:
+            except StandardError as err:
                 self.log("An error occurred when I tried to convert the email's timestamp into a datetime object: %s" % (err,))
                 publish_date = datetime.now()
 
@@ -334,7 +336,7 @@ def create_articles(self, emails):
             try:
                 article.save()
                 self.log('Article created.')
-            except StandardError, err:
+            except StandardError as err:
                 # log it and move on to the next message
                 self.log('Error creating article: %s' % (err,), 0)
                 continue
@@ -355,7 +357,7 @@ def create_articles(self, emails):
 
             if ack:
                 # notify the user when the article is posted
-                subject = u'%s: %s' % (_("Article Posted"), title)
+                subject = '%s: %s' % (_("Article Posted"), title)
                 message = _("""Your email (%(title)s) has been posted as an article on %(site_name)s.
 
     http://%(domain)s%(article_url)s""") % {
diff --git a/articles/management/commands/convert_comments_to_disqus.py b/articles/management/commands/convert_comments_to_disqus.py
index f7818df..a60c0d4 100644
--- a/articles/management/commands/convert_comments_to_disqus.py
+++ b/articles/management/commands/convert_comments_to_disqus.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Command(NoArgsCommand):
     def handle_noargs(self, **opts):
         if hasattr(settings, 'DISQUS_USER_API_KEY'):
             self.forum_id = self.determine_forum()
-            #print self.get_value_from_api('get_thread_list', {'forum_id': self.forum_id, 'limit': 1000})
+            #print(self.get_value_from_api('get_thread_list', {'forum_id': self.forum_id, 'limit': 1000}))
             self.import_comments(self.forum_id)
         else:
             sys.exit('Please specify your DISQUS_USER_API_KEY in settings.py')
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ def get_value_from_api(self, url, args={}, method='GET'):
         url = 'http://disqus.com/api/%s/%s' % (url, additional)
         try:
             handle = urllib2.urlopen(url, data)
-        except urllib2.HTTPError, err:
-            print 'Failed to %s %s with args %s' % (method, url, args)
+        except urllib2.HTTPError as err:
+            print('Failed to %s %s with args %s' % (method, url, args))
             return None
         else:
             json_obj = json.loads(handle.read())['message']
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ def determine_forum(self):
             forum_id = None
             while forum_id not in possible_ids:
                 if forum_id is not None:
-                    print 'Invalid forum ID.  Please try again.'
+                    print('Invalid forum ID.  Please try again.')
 
-                print 'You have the following forums on Disqus:\n'
+                print('You have the following forums on Disqus:\n')
 
                 for forum in forums:
-                    print '\t%s. %s' % (forum['id'], forum['name'])
+                    print('\t%s. %s' % (forum['id'], forum['name']))
 
                 forum_id = raw_input('\nInto which forum do you want to import your existing comments? ')
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def forum_api_key(self):
         return self._forum_api_key[self.forum_id]
 
     def import_comments(self, forum_id):
-        print 'Importing into forum %s' % self.forum_id
+        print('Importing into forum %s' % self.forum_id)
 
         article_ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(Article)
         for comment in Comment.objects.filter(content_type=article_ct):
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ def import_comments(self, forum_id):
                     'title': article.title,
                     'url': 'http://%s%s' % (Site.objects.get_current().domain, article.get_absolute_url()),
                 }, method='POST')
-                print 'Created new thread for %s' % article.title
+                print('Created new thread for %s' % article.title)
 
             # create the comment on disqus
             comment_obj = self.get_value_from_api('create_post', {
@@ -117,7 +117,9 @@ def import_comments(self, forum_id):
                 'state': self.get_state(comment)
             }, method='POST')
 
-            print 'Imported comment for %s by %s on %s' % (article, comment.user_name, comment.submit_date)
+            print('Imported comment for %s by %s on %s' % (
+                article, comment.user_name, comment.submit_date)
+            )
 
     def get_state(self, comment):
         """Determines a comment's state on Disqus based on its properties in Django"""
diff --git a/articles/models.py b/articles/models.py
index 94ea88d..a8e3028 100644
--- a/articles/models.py
+++ b/articles/models.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from hashlib import sha1
 from datetime import datetime
 import logging
@@ -13,10 +15,11 @@
 from django.core.cache import cache
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.template.defaultfilters import slugify, striptags
+from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from django.utils.text import truncate_html_words
 
-from decorators import logtime, once_per_instance
+from .decorators import logtime, once_per_instance
 
 WORD_LIMIT = getattr(settings, 'ARTICLES_TEASER_LIMIT', 75)
 AUTO_TAG = getattr(settings, 'ARTICLES_AUTO_TAG', True)
@@ -72,11 +75,12 @@ def get_name(user):
     return name
 User.get_name = get_name
 
+@python_2_unicode_compatible
 class Tag(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(max_length=64, unique=True)
     slug = models.CharField(max_length=64, unique=True, null=True, blank=True)
 
-    def __unicode__(self):
+    def __str__(self):
         return self.name
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -124,6 +128,7 @@ def default(self):
         else:
             return default[0]
 
+@python_2_unicode_compatible
 class ArticleStatus(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
     ordering = models.IntegerField(default=0)
@@ -135,9 +140,9 @@ class Meta:
         ordering = ('ordering', 'name')
         verbose_name_plural = _('Article statuses')
 
-    def __unicode__(self):
+    def __str__(self):
         if self.is_live:
-            return u'%s (live)' % self.name
+            return '%s (live)' % self.name
         else:
             return self.name
 
@@ -174,6 +179,7 @@ def live(self, user=None):
 <li><a href="http://thresholdstate.com/articles/4312/the-textile-reference-manual" target="_blank">Textile Guide</a></li>
 </ul>""")
 
+@python_2_unicode_compatible
 class Article(models.Model):
     title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
     slug = models.SlugField(unique_for_year='publish_date')
@@ -223,7 +229,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
             if not self.rendered_content or not len(self.rendered_content.strip()):
                 self.save()
 
-    def __unicode__(self):
+    def __str__(self):
         return self.title
 
     def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -494,6 +500,7 @@ class Meta:
         ordering = ('-publish_date', 'title')
         get_latest_by = 'publish_date'
 
+@python_2_unicode_compatible
 class Attachment(models.Model):
     upload_to = lambda inst, fn: 'attach/%s/%s/%s' % (datetime.now().year, inst.article.slug, fn)
 
@@ -504,8 +511,8 @@ class Attachment(models.Model):
     class Meta:
         ordering = ('-article', 'id')
 
-    def __unicode__(self):
-        return u'%s: %s' % (self.article, self.caption)
+    def __str__(self):
+        return '%s: %s' % (self.article, self.caption)
 
     @property
     def filename(self):
@@ -522,3 +529,4 @@ def content_type_class(self):
 
         return content_type
 
+from . import listeners # last to avoid circular import issue
diff --git a/articles/templates/articles/_articles.html b/articles/templates/articles/_articles.html
index ccad23a..489d13e 100644
--- a/articles/templates/articles/_articles.html
+++ b/articles/templates/articles/_articles.html
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 {% load i18n %}
+{% load url from future %}
 {% if forloop.first %}<ol class="article-list">{% endif %}
     <li>
         <h3><a href="{{ article.get_absolute_url }}" title="{% trans 'Read this article' %}">{{ article.title }}</a></h3>
         <div class="quiet">
             {% trans 'Posted on' %} {{ article.publish_date|date:"F jS, Y" }}
-            {% trans 'by' %} <a href="{% url articles_by_author article.author.username %}" title="{% trans 'View articles posted by' %} {{ article.author.get_name }}">{{ article.author.get_name }}</a>
+            {% trans 'by' %} <a href="{% url 'articles_by_author' article.author.username %}" title="{% trans 'View articles posted by' %} {{ article.author.get_name }}">{{ article.author.get_name }}</a>
         </div>
     </li>
-{% if forloop.last %}</ol>{% endif %}
\ No newline at end of file
+{% if forloop.last %}</ol>{% endif %}
diff --git a/articles/templates/articles/_meta.html b/articles/templates/articles/_meta.html
index c6a7557..06675a8 100644
--- a/articles/templates/articles/_meta.html
+++ b/articles/templates/articles/_meta.html
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 {% load i18n humanize %}
+{% load url from future %}
 
 <div id="article-meta">
   <h4>Meta</h4>
 
   <p><strong>{% trans 'Published' %}</strong>: {{ article.publish_date|naturalday }}</p>
 
-  <p><strong>{% trans 'Author' %}</strong>: <a href="{% url articles_by_author article.author.username %}" title="{% trans 'Read other articles by this author' %}">{{ article.author.get_name }}</a></p>
+  <p><strong>{% trans 'Author' %}</strong>: <a href="{% url 'articles_by_author' article.author.username %}" title="{% trans 'Read other articles by this author' %}">{{ article.author.get_name }}</a></p>
 
   <p><strong>{% trans 'Comments' %}</strong>: <a href="#disqus_thread">&nbsp;</a></p>
 
diff --git a/articles/templates/articles/article_detail.html b/articles/templates/articles/article_detail.html
index fbdcb74..02da8e4 100644
--- a/articles/templates/articles/article_detail.html
+++ b/articles/templates/articles/article_detail.html
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {% extends 'articles/base.html' %}
 {% load i18n %}
+{% load url from future %}
 
 {% block title %}{% trans article.title %}{% endblock %}
 {% block meta-keywords %}{{ article.keywords|escape }}{% endblock %}
@@ -7,8 +8,8 @@
 {% block extra-head %}
 {{ block.super }}
 {% for tag in article.tags.all %}
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' RSS Feed" href="{% url articles_rss_feed_tag tag.rss_name %}" />
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' Atom Feed" href="{% url articles_atom_feed_tag tag.rss_name %}" />{% endfor %}
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' RSS Feed" href="{% url 'articles_rss_feed_tag' tag.rss_name %}" />
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' Atom Feed" href="{% url 'articles_atom_feed_tag' tag.rss_name %}" />{% endfor %}
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block content %}
diff --git a/articles/templates/articles/base.html b/articles/templates/articles/base.html
index 91efc5e..3cadd15 100644
--- a/articles/templates/articles/base.html
+++ b/articles/templates/articles/base.html
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 {% extends 'base.html' %}
+{% load url from future %}
 {% load article_tags i18n %}
 
 {% block extra-head %}
 {{ block.super }}
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest Blog Articles RSS Feed" href="{% url articles_rss_feed_latest %}" />
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Latest Blog Articles Atom Feed" href="{% url articles_atom_feed_latest %}" />
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Latest Blog Articles RSS Feed" href="{% url 'articles_rss_feed_latest' %}" />
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Latest Blog Articles Atom Feed" href="{% url 'articles_atom_feed_latest' %}" />
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block content %}
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ <h2 class="title">{% trans 'Article Archives' %}</h2>
             <strong>{{ year.0 }}</strong>
             <ul class="months">
             {% for month in year.1 %}
-                <li><a href="{% url articles_in_month month.year,month.month %}" title="{% trans 'View articles posted in this month' %}">{{ month|date:"N" }}</a></li>
+                <li><a href="{% url 'articles_in_month' month.year month.month %}" title="{% trans 'View articles posted in this month' %}">{{ month|date:"N" }}</a></li>
             {% endfor %}
             </ul>
             <div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
diff --git a/articles/templates/articles/display_tag.html b/articles/templates/articles/display_tag.html
index ef61c9a..663cbfb 100644
--- a/articles/templates/articles/display_tag.html
+++ b/articles/templates/articles/display_tag.html
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 {% extends 'articles/base.html' %}
+{% load url from future %}
 {% load i18n %}
 
 {% block title %}{% trans 'Articles Tagged' %}: {{ tag.name }}{% endblock %}
 {% block extra-head %}
 {{ block.super }}
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' RSS Feed" href="{% url articles_rss_feed_tag tag.rss_name %}" />
-<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' Atom Feed" href="{% url articles_atom_feed_tag tag.rss_name %}" />
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' RSS Feed" href="{% url 'articles_rss_feed_tag' tag.rss_name %}" />
+<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Blog Articles Tagged '{{ tag.name }}' Atom Feed" href="{% url 'articles_atom_feed_tag' tag.rss_name %}" />
 {% endblock %}
 
 {% block articles-content %}
diff --git a/articles/templatetags/article_tags.py b/articles/templatetags/article_tags.py
index b09e29f..9ac20f2 100644
--- a/articles/templatetags/article_tags.py
+++ b/articles/templatetags/article_tags.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def render(self, context):
                 pub = article.publish_date
 
                 # see if we already have an article in this year
-                if not archives.has_key(pub.year):
+                if not pub.year in archives:
                     # if not, initialize a dict for the year
                     archives[pub.year] = {}
 
diff --git a/articles/tests.py b/articles/tests.py
index a325326..01afa84 100644
--- a/articles/tests.py
+++ b/articles/tests.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User, Permission
@@ -7,7 +9,7 @@
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.test.client import Client
 
-from models import Article, ArticleStatus, Tag, get_name, MARKUP_HTML, MARKUP_MARKDOWN, MARKUP_REST, MARKUP_TEXTILE
+from .models import Article, ArticleStatus, Tag, get_name, MARKUP_HTML, MARKUP_MARKDOWN, MARKUP_REST, MARKUP_TEXTILE
 
 class ArticleUtilMixin(object):
 
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ def setUp(self):
     def test_unicode_tag(self):
         """Unicode characters in tags (issue #10)"""
 
-        name = u'Căutare avansată'
+        name = 'Căutare avansată'
         t = Tag.objects.create(name=name)
         self.assertEqual(t.slug, 'cutare-avansat')
 
@@ -75,10 +77,10 @@ def setUp(self):
 
     def test_instantiation(self):
         _as = ArticleStatus(name='Fake', ordering=5, is_live=True)
-        self.assertEqual(unicode(_as), u'Fake (live)')
+        self.assertEqual(unicode(_as), 'Fake (live)')
 
         _as.is_live = False
-        self.assertEqual(unicode(_as), u'Fake')
+        self.assertEqual(unicode(_as), 'Fake')
 
 class ArticleTestCase(TestCase, ArticleUtilMixin):
     fixtures = ['users']
@@ -170,7 +172,7 @@ def test_markup_markdown(self):
 regular paragraph.''', markup=MARKUP_MARKDOWN)
         a.do_render_markup()
 
-        print a.rendered_content
+        print(a.rendered_content)
 
     def test_markup_rest(self):
         """Makes sure reStructuredText works"""
@@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ def test_markup_rest(self):
 regular paragraph.''', markup=MARKUP_REST)
         a.do_render_markup()
 
-        print a.rendered_content
+        print(a.rendered_content)
 
     def test_markup_textile(self):
         """Makes sure textile works"""
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ def test_markup_textile(self):
 regular paragraph.''', markup=MARKUP_TEXTILE)
         a.do_render_markup()
 
-        print a.rendered_content
+        print(a.rendered_content)
 
     def test_markup_html(self):
         """Makes sure HTML works (derp)"""
diff --git a/articles/urls.py b/articles/urls.py
index 564c7ea..486db88 100644
--- a/articles/urls.py
+++ b/articles/urls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
 
-from articles import views
-from articles.feeds import TagFeed, LatestEntries, TagFeedAtom, LatestEntriesAtom
+from . import views
+from .feeds import TagFeed, LatestEntries, TagFeedAtom, LatestEntriesAtom
 
 tag_rss = TagFeed()
 latest_rss = LatestEntries()
diff --git a/articles/views.py b/articles/views.py
index 7184c17..de9378a 100644
--- a/articles/views.py
+++ b/articles/views.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import logging
 
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@
 from django.http import HttpResponsePermanentRedirect, Http404, HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponse
 from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404
 from django.template import RequestContext
-from articles.models import Article, Tag
+from .models import Article, Tag
 from datetime import datetime
 
 ARTICLE_PAGINATION = getattr(settings, 'ARTICLE_PAGINATION', 20)
@@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ def ajax_tag_autocomplete(request):
             return response
 
         tags = list(Tag.objects.filter(name__istartswith=q)[:10])
-        response = HttpResponse(u'\n'.join(tag.name for tag in tags))
+        response = HttpResponse('\n'.join(tag.name for tag in tags))
         cache.set(key, response, 300)
 
         return response