diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
index 40e0395ebd2c3c..8f0aac6a1c7087 100755
--- a/configure.py
+++ b/configure.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 import errno
 import argparse
 import os
-import pipes
 import pprint
 import re
 import shlex
@@ -2127,7 +2126,7 @@ def make_bin_override():
       pprint.pformat(output, indent=2, width=1024) + '\n')
 
 write('config.status', '#!/bin/sh\nset -x\nexec ./configure ' +
-      ' '.join([pipes.quote(arg) for arg in original_argv]) + '\n')
+      ' '.join([shlex.quote(arg) for arg in original_argv]) + '\n')
 os.chmod('config.status', 0o775)