diff --git a/test/units/compat/builtins.py b/test/units/compat/builtins.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f60ee678228..00000000000
--- a/test/units/compat/builtins.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# (c) 2014, Toshio Kuratomi <tkuratomi@ansible.com>
-#
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# Make coding more python3-ish
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-#
-# Compat for python2.7
-#
-
-# One unittest needs to import builtins via __import__() so we need to have
-# the string that represents it
-try:
-    import __builtin__
-except ImportError:
-    BUILTINS = 'builtins'
-else:
-    BUILTINS = '__builtin__'
diff --git a/test/units/errors/test_errors.py b/test/units/errors/test_errors.py
index 136a2695099..35689c1c86a 100644
--- a/test/units/errors/test_errors.py
+++ b/test/units/errors/test_errors.py
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 
 
 from units.compat import unittest
-from units.compat.builtins import BUILTINS
 from units.compat.mock import mock_open, patch
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.parsing.yaml.objects import AnsibleBaseYAMLObject
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ class TestErrors(unittest.TestCase):
         m = mock_open()
         m.return_value.readlines.return_value = ['this is line 1\n']
 
-        with patch('{0}.open'.format(BUILTINS), m):
+        with patch('builtins.open', m):
             # this line will be found in the file
             self.obj.ansible_pos = ('foo.yml', 1, 1)
             e = AnsibleError(self.message, self.obj)
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@ class TestErrors(unittest.TestCase):
         m = mock_open()
         m.return_value.readlines.return_value = ['this line has unicode \xf0\x9f\x98\xa8 in it!\n']
 
-        with patch('{0}.open'.format(BUILTINS), m):
+        with patch('builtins.open', m):
             # this line will be found in the file
             self.obj.ansible_pos = ('foo.yml', 1, 1)
             e = AnsibleError(self.unicode_message, self.obj)
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ class TestErrors(unittest.TestCase):
         m = mock_open()
         m.return_value.readlines.return_value = ['this is line 1\n', 'this is line 2\n', 'this is line 3\n']
 
-        with patch('{0}.open'.format(BUILTINS), m):
+        with patch('builtins.open', m):
             # If the error occurs in the last line of the file, use the correct index to get the line
             # and avoid the IndexError
             self.obj.ansible_pos = ('foo.yml', 4, 1)
@@ -141,7 +140,7 @@ class TestErrors(unittest.TestCase):
         m = mock_open()
         m.return_value.readlines.return_value = ['this is line 1\n', 'this is line 2\n', 'this is line 3\n', '  \n', '   \n', ' ']
 
-        with patch('{0}.open'.format(BUILTINS), m):
+        with patch('builtins.open', m):
             self.obj.ansible_pos = ('foo.yml', 5, 1)
             e = AnsibleError(self.message, self.obj)
             self.assertEqual(
diff --git a/test/units/plugins/test_plugins.py b/test/units/plugins/test_plugins.py
index c9d80cda6d4..18dbce98dad 100644
--- a/test/units/plugins/test_plugins.py
+++ b/test/units/plugins/test_plugins.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ __metaclass__ = type
 import os
 
 from units.compat import unittest
-from units.compat.builtins import BUILTINS
 from units.compat.mock import patch, MagicMock
 from ansible.plugins.loader import PluginLoader, PluginPathContext
 
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ class TestErrors(unittest.TestCase):
         bar.bam = bam
         foo.return_value.bar = bar
         pl = PluginLoader('test', 'foo.bar.bam', 'test', 'test_plugin')
-        with patch('{0}.__import__'.format(BUILTINS), foo):
+        with patch('builtins.__import__', foo):
             self.assertEqual(pl._get_package_paths(), ['/path/to/my/foo/bar/bam'])
 
     def test_plugins__get_paths(self):