diff --git a/pyparsing.py b/pyparsing.py
index e8aefc8c..800ddd9f 100644
--- a/pyparsing.py
+++ b/pyparsing.py
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@ class names, and the use of '+', '|' and '^' operators.
 except ImportError:
     from threading import RLock
 
+try:
+    # Python 3
+    from collections.abc import Iterable
+    from collections.abc import MutableMapping
+except ImportError:
+    # Python 2.7
+    from collections import Iterable
+    from collections import MutableMapping
+
 try:
     from collections import OrderedDict as _OrderedDict
 except ImportError:
@@ -940,7 +949,7 @@ def __getnewargs__(self):
     def __dir__(self):
         return (dir(type(self)) + list(self.keys()))
 
-collections.MutableMapping.register(ParseResults)
+MutableMapping.register(ParseResults)
 
 def col (loc,strg):
     """Returns current column within a string, counting newlines as line separators.
@@ -3242,7 +3251,7 @@ def __init__( self, exprs, savelist = False ):
 
         if isinstance( exprs, basestring ):
             self.exprs = [ ParserElement._literalStringClass( exprs ) ]
-        elif isinstance( exprs, collections.Iterable ):
+        elif isinstance( exprs, Iterable ):
             exprs = list(exprs)
             # if sequence of strings provided, wrap with Literal
             if all(isinstance(expr, basestring) for expr in exprs):
@@ -4583,7 +4592,7 @@ def oneOf( strs, caseless=False, useRegex=True ):
     symbols = []
     if isinstance(strs,basestring):
         symbols = strs.split()
-    elif isinstance(strs, collections.Iterable):
+    elif isinstance(strs, Iterable):
         symbols = list(strs)
     else:
         warnings.warn("Invalid argument to oneOf, expected string or iterable",