diff --git a/tests/test_compare_algorithms.py b/tests/test_compare_algorithms.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/tests/test_compare_algorithms.py
+++ b/tests/test_compare_algorithms.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
 import unittest
 
 import pandas.util.testing as pdt
Added unicode_literals future import to tests.