diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py b/examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py
index 3d15fa6e3675..faf8f4d785e5 100644
--- a/examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py
+++ b/examples/pylab_examples/load_converter.py
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
-from matplotlib.dates import bytespdate2num
-#from matplotlib.mlab import load
 import numpy as np
-from pylab import figure, show
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook
+import matplotlib.dates as mdates
+from matplotlib.dates import bytespdate2num
 
 datafile = cbook.get_sample_data('msft.csv', asfileobj=False)
 print('loading', datafile)
 
-dates, closes = np.loadtxt(
-    datafile, delimiter=',',
-    converters={0: bytespdate2num('%d-%b-%y')},
-    skiprows=1, usecols=(0, 2), unpack=True)
+dates, closes = np.loadtxt(datafile, delimiter=',',
+                           converters={0: bytespdate2num('%d-%b-%y')},
+                           skiprows=1, usecols=(0, 2), unpack=True)
 
-fig = figure()
+fig = plt.figure()
 ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
 ax.plot_date(dates, closes, '-')
 fig.autofmt_xdate()
-show()
+plt.show()