diff --git a/hy/compiler.py b/hy/compiler.py
index 5d8f915..e6a888e 100755
--- a/hy/compiler.py
+++ b/hy/compiler.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from hy._compat import (
     raise_empty)
 from hy.macros import require, macroexpand, tag_macroexpand
 import hy.importer
+import hy.inspect
 
 import traceback
 import importlib
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@ import ast
 import sys
 import keyword
 import copy
-import inspect
 
 from collections import defaultdict
 from cmath import isnan
@@ -441,10 +441,11 @@ class HyASTCompiler(object):
             # _compile_table[atom_type] is a method for compiling this
             # type of atom, so call it. If it has an extra parameter,
             # pass in `atom_type`.
-            arity = len(inspect.getargspec(_compile_table[atom_type])[0])
-            ret = (_compile_table[atom_type](self, atom, atom_type)
+            atom_compiler = _compile_table[atom_type]
+            arity = hy.inspect.get_arity(atom_compiler)
+            ret = (atom_compiler(self, atom, atom_type)
                    if arity == 3
-                   else _compile_table[atom_type](self, atom))
+                   else atom_compiler(self, atom))
             if not isinstance(ret, Result):
                 ret = Result() + ret
             return ret
diff --git a/hy/importer.py b/hy/importer.py
index 450de27..1b368a8 100644
--- a/hy/importer.py
+++ b/hy/importer.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # This file is part of Hy, which is free software licensed under the Expat
 # license. See the LICENSE.
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
 from hy.compiler import hy_compile, HyTypeError
 from hy.models import HyObject, HyExpression, HySymbol, replace_hy_obj
 from hy.lex import tokenize, LexException
diff --git a/hy/inspect.py b/hy/inspect.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff972ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hy/inspect.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 2018 the authors.
+# This file is part of Hy, which is free software licensed under the Expat
+# license. See the LICENSE.
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+
+import inspect
+
+try:
+    # Check if we have the newer inspect.signature available.
+    # Otherwise fallback to the legacy getargspec.
+    inspect.signature  # noqa
+except AttributeError:
+    def get_arity(fn):
+        return len(inspect.getargspec(fn)[0])
+
+    def has_kwargs(fn):
+        argspec = inspect.getargspec(fn)
+        return argspec.keywords is not None
+
+    def format_args(fn):
+        argspec = inspect.getargspec(fn)
+        return inspect.formatargspec(*argspec)
+
+else:
+    def get_arity(fn):
+        parameters = inspect.signature(fn).parameters
+        return sum(1 for param in parameters.values()
+                   if param.kind == param.POSITIONAL_OR_KEYWORD)
+
+    def has_kwargs(fn):
+        parameters = inspect.signature(fn).parameters
+        return any(param.kind == param.VAR_KEYWORD
+                   for param in parameters.values())
+
+    def format_args(fn):
+        return str(inspect.signature(fn))
diff --git a/hy/macros.py b/hy/macros.py
index 9b1a743..0613711 100644
--- a/hy/macros.py
+++ b/hy/macros.py
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 # This file is part of Hy, which is free software licensed under the Expat
 # license. See the LICENSE.
 
-from inspect import getargspec, formatargspec
+import hy.inspect
 from hy.models import replace_hy_obj, HyExpression, HySymbol
-
 from hy.errors import HyTypeError, HyMacroExpansionError
 
 from collections import defaultdict
@@ -36,8 +35,7 @@ def macro(name):
     def _(fn):
         fn.__name__ = '({})'.format(name)
         try:
-            argspec = getargspec(fn)
-            fn._hy_macro_pass_compiler = argspec.keywords is not None
+            fn._hy_macro_pass_compiler = hy.inspect.has_kwargs(fn)
         except Exception:
             # An exception might be raised if fn has arguments with
             # names that are invalid in Python.
@@ -136,9 +134,7 @@ def make_empty_fn_copy(fn):
         # can continue running. Unfortunately, the error message that might get
         # raised later on while expanding a macro might not make sense at all.
 
-        argspec = getargspec(fn)
-        formatted_args = formatargspec(*argspec)
-
+        formatted_args = hy.inspect.format_args(fn)
         fn_str = 'lambda {}: None'.format(
             formatted_args.lstrip('(').rstrip(')'))
         empty_fn = eval(fn_str)