diff --git a/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl/__init__.py b/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl/__init__.py
index aa0743925e8faa20ee3a65be4c7e759ee8f447c7..788dcdbe2d7096e16d2748104b008f4bfdd38a3a 100644
--- a/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl/__init__.py
+++ b/arraycontext/impl/pyopencl/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ from pytools.tag import Tag
 
 from arraycontext.metadata import FirstAxisIsElementsTag
 from arraycontext.context import ArrayContext
-from numbers import Number
 
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
diff --git a/test/test_arraycontext.py b/test/test_arraycontext.py
index e68914d2f97f9885b08909d0f4f5cf6506ab6f14..3e9ec2c1242cdd18af4ebe920e627159f74bc178 100644
--- a/test/test_arraycontext.py
+++ b/test/test_arraycontext.py
@@ -413,7 +413,9 @@ def test_dof_array_reductions_same_as_numpy(actx_factory, op):
     np_red = getattr(np, op)(ary)
     actx_red = getattr(actx.np, op)(actx.from_numpy(ary))
     actx_red = actx.to_numpy(actx_red)
-    
+
+    from numbers import Number
+
     if actx._force_device_scalars:
         assert actx_red.shape == ()
     else: