diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3d4bfdf9..6e6f4b7d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 build/
 dist/
 *.egg-info/
+bench/shakespeare.txt
+.coverage
diff --git a/toolz/compatibility.py b/toolz/compatibility.py
index b8d1d049..51e3673f 100644
--- a/toolz/compatibility.py
+++ b/toolz/compatibility.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     iteritems = operator.methodcaller('items')
     iterkeys = operator.methodcaller('keys')
     itervalues = operator.methodcaller('values')
+    from collections.abc import Sequence
 else:
     range = xrange
     reduce = reduce
@@ -30,3 +31,4 @@
     iteritems = operator.methodcaller('iteritems')
     iterkeys = operator.methodcaller('iterkeys')
     itervalues = operator.methodcaller('itervalues')
+    from collections import Sequence
diff --git a/toolz/itertoolz.py b/toolz/itertoolz.py
index 9d615c00..a063c4c7 100644
--- a/toolz/itertoolz.py
+++ b/toolz/itertoolz.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from functools import partial
 from random import Random
 from toolz.compatibility import (map, filterfalse, zip, zip_longest, iteritems,
-                                 filter)
+                                 filter, Sequence)
 from toolz.utils import no_default
 
 
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ def nth(n, seq):
     >>> nth(1, 'ABC')
     'B'
     """
-    if isinstance(seq, (tuple, list, collections.Sequence)):
+    if isinstance(seq, (tuple, list, Sequence)):
         return seq[n]
     else:
         return next(itertools.islice(seq, n, None))