diff --git a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
index f83d484053dfced58c02bf680cfa8cdbfbebff2d..118f4eb1683ae94665e57b694489fef537fe2e09 100644
--- a/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
+++ b/wetb/hawc2/ascii2bin/make_exe.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from future import standard_library
 standard_library.install_aliases()
 from build_exe.cx.build_cx_exe import NUMPY
 
-from build_exe.cx import build_cx_exe
+
 if __name__=="__main__":
+    from build_exe.cx import build_cx_exe
     build_cx_exe.build_exe("ascii2bin.py", version="3.0.1", includes=["'pandas'"], modules=['email', NUMPY])