diff --git a/llvm/utils/gn/get.py b/llvm/utils/gn/get.py
--- a/llvm/utils/gn/get.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/gn/get.py
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
 
 import io
 import os
-import urllib2
+try:
+    # In Python 3, we need the module urllib.reqest. In Python 2, this
+    # functionality was in the urllib2 module.
+    from urllib import request as urllib_request
+except ImportError:
+    import urllib2 as urllib_request
 import sys
 import zipfile
 
@@ -14,7 +19,7 @@
     """Download an archive from url and extract gn from it into output_dir."""
     print('downloading %s ...' % url, end='')
     sys.stdout.flush()
-    data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
+    data = urllib_request.urlopen(url).read()
     print(' done')
     zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(data)).extract(gn, path=output_dir)