diff --git a/backends/cbackend_vectorized.py b/backends/cbackend_vectorized.py
index 7c70df448d1f3a6a1c7e4336bdba186b57e5b4ac..62a16b2178bf0118159d36b490e60b565f118e19 100644
--- a/backends/cbackend_vectorized.py
+++ b/backends/cbackend_vectorized.py
@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ from collections import namedtuple
 
 import sympy as sp
 from sympy.core import S
-from sympy.utilities.codegen import CCodePrinter
+
+try:
+    from sympy.utilities.codegen import CCodePrinter
+except ImportError:
+    from sympy.printing.ccode import C99CodePrinter as CCodePrinter
+
 from sympy.core.mul import _keep_coeff
 
 from pystencils.backends.cbackend import CustomSympyPrinter