diff --git a/web_infrastructure/htpasswd.py b/web_infrastructure/htpasswd.py
index 3ad9de6e60f..f1a4e482f3a 100644
--- a/web_infrastructure/htpasswd.py
+++ b/web_infrastructure/htpasswd.py
@@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ def main():
 
 
 # import module snippets
-from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()