diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 45bd72c9a..0384cb1f4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ convention = "numpy"
 "xonsh/history.py" = ["F821"]
 "xonsh/parsers/lexer.py" = ["E741"]
 "xonsh/parsers/completion_context.py" = ["B018"]
-"xonsh/lib/tokenize.py" = [
+"xonsh/parsers/tokenize.py" = [
     "F821",
     "F841",
     "B904" # Within an `except` clause, raise exceptions with `raise ... from err`
diff --git a/xonsh/lib/inspectors.py b/xonsh/lib/inspectors.py
index aeb21b7fe..0de3e1ea6 100644
--- a/xonsh/lib/inspectors.py
+++ b/xonsh/lib/inspectors.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import types
 from xonsh.lib.lazyasd import LazyObject
 from xonsh.lib.lazyimps import pyghooks, pygments
 from xonsh.lib.openpy import read_py_file
-from xonsh.lib.tokenize import detect_encoding
+from xonsh.parsers.tokenize import detect_encoding
 from xonsh.platform import HAS_PYGMENTS
 from xonsh.style_tools import partial_color_tokenize
 from xonsh.tools import cast_unicode, format_color, indent, print_color, safe_hasattr
diff --git a/xonsh/lib/openpy.py b/xonsh/lib/openpy.py
index dab87a7a1..e16d35404 100644
--- a/xonsh/lib/openpy.py
+++ b/xonsh/lib/openpy.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import io
 import re
 
 from xonsh.lib.lazyasd import LazyObject
-from xonsh.lib.tokenize import detect_encoding, tokopen
+from xonsh.parsers.tokenize import detect_encoding, tokopen
 
 cookie_comment_re = LazyObject(
     lambda: re.compile(r"^\s*#.*coding[:=]\s*([-\w.]+)", re.UNICODE),
diff --git a/xonsh/parsers/base.py b/xonsh/parsers/base.py
index f519b0d90..c1223cf83 100644
--- a/xonsh/parsers/base.py
+++ b/xonsh/parsers/base.py
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ from collections.abc import Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
 from threading import Thread
 
 from xonsh.lib.lazyasd import LazyObject
-from xonsh.lib.tokenize import SearchPath, StringPrefix
 from xonsh.parsers import ast
 from xonsh.parsers.ast import has_elts, load_attribute_chain, xonsh_call
 from xonsh.parsers.context_check import check_contexts
 from xonsh.parsers.fstring_adaptor import FStringAdaptor
 from xonsh.parsers.lexer import Lexer, LexToken
 from xonsh.parsers.ply import yacc
+from xonsh.parsers.tokenize import SearchPath, StringPrefix
 from xonsh.platform import PYTHON_VERSION_INFO
 
 RE_SEARCHPATH = LazyObject(lambda: re.compile(SearchPath), globals(), "RE_SEARCHPATH")
diff --git a/xonsh/parsers/lexer.py b/xonsh/parsers/lexer.py
index 3b3ed1fda..4e0d9dd2c 100644
--- a/xonsh/parsers/lexer.py
+++ b/xonsh/parsers/lexer.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import re
 import typing as tp
 
 from xonsh.lib.lazyasd import lazyobject
-from xonsh.lib.tokenize import (
+from xonsh.parsers.ply.lex import LexToken
+from xonsh.parsers.tokenize import (
     CASE,
     COMMENT,
     DEDENT,
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@ from xonsh.lib.tokenize import (
     TokenError,
     tokenize,
 )
-from xonsh.parsers.ply.lex import LexToken
 from xonsh.platform import PYTHON_VERSION_INFO
 
 
diff --git a/xonsh/lib/tokenize.py b/xonsh/parsers/tokenize.py
similarity index 100%
rename from xonsh/lib/tokenize.py
rename to xonsh/parsers/tokenize.py