diff --git a/testing/logging/test_reporting.py b/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
index 0bd017057..4f605209c 100644
--- a/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
+++ b/testing/logging/test_reporting.py
@@ -460,13 +460,6 @@ def test_live_logging_suspends_capture(has_capture_manager, request):
     from _pytest.capture import CaptureManager
     from _pytest.logging import _LiveLoggingStreamHandler
 
-    if six.PY2:
-        # need to use the 'generic' StringIO instead of io.StringIO because we might receive both bytes
-        # and unicode objects; io.StringIO only accepts unicode
-        from StringIO import StringIO
-    else:
-        from io import StringIO
-
     class MockCaptureManager:
         calls = []
 
@@ -481,11 +474,11 @@ def test_live_logging_suspends_capture(has_capture_manager, request):
     assert CaptureManager.resume_global_capture
 
     capture_manager = MockCaptureManager() if has_capture_manager else None
-    out_file = StringIO()
+    out_file = six.StringIO()
 
     handler = _LiveLoggingStreamHandler(out_file, capture_manager)
 
-    logger = logging.getLogger(__file__ + '.test_live_logging_suspends_capture')
+    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__ + '.test_live_logging_suspends_capture')
     logger.addHandler(handler)
     request.addfinalizer(partial(logger.removeHandler, handler))