diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index c0aac2d..a6904e6 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ django-eav
 Introduction
 ------------
 
+This is a fork of https://github.com/mvpdev/django-eav, to make it Python 3 compatible. 
+
+
 django-eav provides an Entity-Attribute-Value storage model for django apps.
 
 For a decent explanation of what an Entity-Attribute-Value storage model is,
diff --git a/eav/__init__.py b/eav/__init__.py
index 73a21be..e4cc249 100644
--- a/eav/__init__.py
+++ b/eav/__init__.py
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ def get_version():
 __version__ = get_version()
 
 def register(model_cls, config_cls=None):
-    from registry import Registry
+    from .registry import Registry
     Registry.register(model_cls, config_cls)
 
 def unregister(model_cls):
-    from registry import Registry
+    from .registry import Registry
     Registry.unregister(model_cls)
diff --git a/eav/models.py b/eav/models.py
index 9de7ab2..1544567 100644
--- a/eav/models.py
+++ b/eav/models.py
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ def validate_attributes(self):
             else:
                 try:
                     attribute.validate_value(value)
-                except ValidationError, e:
+                except ValidationError as e:
                     raise ValidationError(_(u"%(attr)s EAV field %(err)s") % \
                                               {'attr': attribute.slug,
                                                'err': e})
diff --git a/eav/validators.py b/eav/validators.py
index f5d6c5a..f3276ca 100644
--- a/eav/validators.py
+++ b/eav/validators.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def validate_text(value):
     '''
     Raises ``ValidationError`` unless *value* type is ``str`` or ``unicode``
     '''
-    if not (type(value) == unicode or type(value) == str):
+    if not (type(value) == str):
         raise ValidationError(_(u"Must be str or unicode"))
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b4727b7..d029683 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
                 'Django app.',
     long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
 
-    url='http://github.com/mvpdev/django-eav',
+    url='http://github.com/ckingswood/django-eav',
 
     packages=['eav', 'eav.tests'],