diff --git a/docs/topics/templates.txt b/docs/topics/templates.txt
index aab43f6c88..7a0fc77373 100644
--- a/docs/topics/templates.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/templates.txt
@@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ APIs, you must configure them into the environment.
 
 For example, you can create ``myproject/jinja2.py`` with this content::
 
+    from __future__ import absolute_import  # Python 2 only
+
     from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import staticfiles_storage
     from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse