diff --git a/resources/lib/utils.py b/resources/lib/utils.py
index a3363a77..f2f58cd1 100644
--- a/resources/lib/utils.py
+++ b/resources/lib/utils.py
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from unicodedata import normalize
 from threading import Lock
 import urllib
+# even with the above import urllib, Python3 sometimes runs into this issue
+# AttributeError: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'parse'
+# Hence import explicitly
+import urllib.parse
 # Originally tried faster cElementTree, but does NOT work reliably with Kodi
 # etree parse unsafe; make sure we're always receiving unicode
 from . import defused_etree as etree