diff --git a/mercurial/__init__.py b/mercurial/__init__.py
--- a/mercurial/__init__.py
+++ b/mercurial/__init__.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
                     continue
                 r, c = t.start
                 l = (b'; from mercurial.pycompat import '
-                     b'delattr, getattr, hasattr, setattr, xrange, '
+                     b'delattr, getattr, hasattr, setattr, '
                      b'open, unicode\n')
                 for u in tokenize.tokenize(io.BytesIO(l).readline):
                     if u.type in (tokenize.ENCODING, token.ENDMARKER):