diff --git a/hy/_compat.py b/hy/_compat.py
index e30d0dc..65aa29b 100644
--- a/hy/_compat.py
+++ b/hy/_compat.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2013 Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org>
 # Copyright (c) 2013 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
@@ -23,9 +24,22 @@ try:
     import __builtin__ as builtins
 except ImportError:
     import builtins  # NOQA
+try:
+    from py_compile import MAGIC, wr_long
+except ImportError:
+    # py_compile.MAGIC removed and imp.get_magic() deprecated in Python 3.4
+    from importlib.util import MAGIC_NUMBER as MAGIC  # NOQA
+
+    def wr_long(f, x):
+        """Internal; write a 32-bit int to a file in little-endian order."""
+        f.write(bytes([x & 0xff,
+                       (x >> 8) & 0xff,
+                       (x >> 16) & 0xff,
+                       (x >> 24) & 0xff]))
 import sys
 
 PY3 = sys.version_info[0] >= 3
+PY33 = sys.version_info[0] >= 3 and sys.version_info[1] >= 3
 
 if PY3:
     str_type = str
diff --git a/hy/importer.py b/hy/importer.py
index b32b71a..63cc55a 100644
--- a/hy/importer.py
+++ b/hy/importer.py
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@
 # FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
 # DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
-from py_compile import wr_long, MAGIC
 from hy.compiler import hy_compile
 from hy.models import HyObject
 from hy.lex import tokenize
 
-
 from io import open
 import marshal
 import imp
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ import ast
 import os
 import __future__
 
-from hy._compat import builtins, long_type
+from hy._compat import PY3, PY33, MAGIC, builtins, long_type, wr_long
 
 
 def ast_compile(ast, filename, mode):
@@ -128,12 +126,12 @@ def write_hy_as_pyc(fname):
     open_ = builtins.open
 
     with open_(cfile, 'wb') as fc:
-        if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+        if PY3:
             fc.write(b'\0\0\0\0')
         else:
             fc.write('\0\0\0\0')
         wr_long(fc, timestamp)
-        if (sys.version_info[0] >= 3 and sys.version_info[1] >= 3):
+        if PY33:
             wr_long(fc, st.st_size)
         marshal.dump(code, fc)
         fc.flush()