diff --git a/parametricJob.py b/parametricJob.py
index 616d0badbff4a049eb1dd7186c145871912d364a..a5c766b17be51e154dc27e48a14c12c9df09bfad 100644
--- a/parametricJob.py
+++ b/parametricJob.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #from future import standard_library
 #standard_library.install_aliases()
 import sys, os, os.path, shutil, socket, platform, glob, fnmatch
-import datetime, tarfile, subprocess, string
+import datetime, tarfile, subprocess, string, re
 from prmClasses import *
 
 # -- Base Class ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         return niceCmd
 
     def getMailData(self):
-        import re
         fromAddr = "%s@%s" % (os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0])
         toAddr   = self.pars['MAIL_ADDR'].val
         if re.match('(.+)@(.+)',toAddr):
@@ -166,7 +165,6 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         return cfgfile
 
     def hasSysCmd(self, cmd):
-        import subprocess
         status, result = subprocess.getstatusoutput("which %s" % cmd)
         return status==0
 
@@ -269,7 +267,6 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         # get guess profile
         cfgfile = self.guessProfile()        
         cfgFileName, cfgFileExtension = os.path.splitext(self.cfgfile)
-        import re
         m = re.compile(cfgFileName+'([0-9]+)\\'+cfgFileExtension)
         #print (cfgFileName+'([0-9]+)\\'+cfgFileExtension)
         launchId = 0        
@@ -312,14 +309,12 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         #shcmd="at now + 1 minutes -f %s" % (scriptname)
         #shcmd="at now %s" % scriptname
         print("shcmd = ", shcmd)
-        import subprocess
         status, result = subprocess.getstatusoutput(shcmd)
         if status!=0:
             print("Job submission FAILED!")
         else:
             print("Submission SUCCESSFUL!")
             #print "result = ", result
-            import re
             m = re.search('job ([0-9]+)',result)
             batchId = m.group(1)
             #print m.group
@@ -402,14 +397,12 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         # send to sge
         print("sending job '%s' to SGE" % jobname)
         shcmd="qsub ./%s" % scriptname
-        import subprocess
         status, result = subprocess.getstatusoutput(shcmd)
         print(result)
         if status!=0:
             print("Job submission FAILED!")
         else:
             print("Submission SUCCESSFUL!")
-            import re
             m = re.compile('Your job ([0-9]+)').match(result)
             sgeId = m.group(1)
             if m:
@@ -498,14 +491,12 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         # send to slurm
         print("sending job '%s' to Slurm" % jobname)
         shcmd="sbatch ./%s" % scriptname
-        import subprocess
         status, result = subprocess.getstatusoutput(shcmd)
         print(result)
         if status!=0:
             print("Job submission FAILED!")
         else:
             print("Submission SUCCESSFUL!")
-            import re
             m = re.compile('Submitted batch job ([0-9]+)').match(result)
             slurmId = m.group(1)
             if m:
@@ -628,7 +619,6 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
         # send to PBS
         print('sending job "%s" to PBS' % jobname)
         shcmd='qsub ./%s' % scriptname
-        import subprocess
         status, result = subprocess.getstatusoutput(shcmd)
         print('command status = ', status)
         print('command result = ', result)
@@ -644,23 +634,6 @@ class ParametricJob(PRMSet):
             self.PBSCancelScript(PbsId)
             print("\tuse ' qstat -f %s ' to check the status of the PBS scheduling queue of your job" % PbsId)
             print("\tuse ' qdel %s ' to kill your job" % PbsId)
-            '''
-            #import re
-            #m = re.compile('waiting for job ([0-9]+) to start').match(result)            
-            #result : 3067709.frontal2
-            #m = re.compile('([0-9]+)\.(.+)').match(result)
-            #print "m = ", m
-            #PbsId = m.group(1)
-            if m:
-                cfgFileName, cfgFileExtension = os.path.splitext(self.cfgfile)
-                os.system("cp %s %s%s%s"%(self.cfgfile, cfgFileName, PbsId, cfgFileExtension))
-                self.PBSCancelScript(PbsId)
-                print "\tuse ' qstat -f %s ' to check the status of the PBS scheduling queue of your job" % PbsId
-                #print "\tuse ' sprio -l -j %s ' to check the factor priority of your job" % PbsId
-                #print "\tuse ' sstat  -a --format=JobID,NTasks,MaxRSS,MaxVMSize -j %s ' to get information about your running job (adapt format to your needs)" % PbsId
-                print "\tuse ' qdel %s ' to kill your job" % PbsId
-                #print "\tuse ' sacct --format=JobID,NTasks,NCPUS,CPUTime,Elapsed,MaxRSS,MaxVMSize -j %s ' to get information about your finished job (adapt format to your needs)" % PbsId
-             '''
         # to avoid closing the gui
         if not (re.match(r'(.+)Gui.pyw', sys.argv[0])): 
             sys.exit()