diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fb19907..66918fd 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ group: travis_latest
 language: python
 cache: pip
 python:
-    - 2.7
     - 3.7
 install:
     - pip install flake8 -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/lib/spark.py b/lib/spark.py
index e7d2c5a..2a0ed62 100644
--- a/lib/spark.py
+++ b/lib/spark.py
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ import constants
 import translations
 import wttr_line
 
-reload(sys)
-sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    reload(sys)
+    sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
 
 # data processing {{{