diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 48883d8..1ae8435 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 try:
     # Work around a traceback with Nose on Python 2.6
     # http://bugs.python.org/issue15881#msg170215
-    import multiprocessing
+    __import__('multiprocessing')
 except ImportError:
     pass