diff --git a/lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/__init__.py b/lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/__init__.py
index f78d88903714e891e91c0ed4929e9cb53fa7162b..5acd61bc373891f33cde0b168106c709e1b8eacd 100644
--- a/lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/spack/llnl/util/tty/__init__.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import struct
 import traceback
 from six import StringIO
+from six.moves import input
 
 from llnl.util.tty.color import *
 
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ def get_number(prompt, **kwargs):
     number = None
     while number is None:
         msg(prompt, newline=False)
-        ans = raw_input()
+        ans = input()
         if ans == str(abort):
             return None
 
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ def get_yes_or_no(prompt, **kwargs):
     result = None
     while result is None:
         msg(prompt, newline=False)
-        ans = raw_input().lower()
+        ans = input().lower()
         if not ans:
             result = default_value
             if result is None:
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/package.py b/lib/spack/spack/package.py
index bc479c9cf590766545cfad12588aed8cec0d919d..4a42fef33798b017038b9b23a280f88ee4f89e47 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/package.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/package.py
@@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ def build_process(input_stream):
             # otherwise it should not have passed us the copy of the stream.
             # Thus, we are free to work with the the copy (input_stream)
             # however we want. For example, we might want to call functions
-            # (e.g. raw_input()) that implicitly read from whatever stream is
+            # (e.g. input()) that implicitly read from whatever stream is
             # assigned to sys.stdin. Since we want them to work with the
             # original input stream, we are making the following assignment:
             sys.stdin = input_stream