diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index feebbeb239b..3492f4ed76e 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ With these models, the ``ModelForm`` subclasses above would be roughly
 equivalent to this (the only difference being the ``save()`` method, which
 we'll discuss in a moment.)::
 
+    from django import forms
+
     class AuthorForm(forms.Form):
         name = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
         title = forms.CharField(max_length=3,