From f466def82dfac8f5ec73fc4726cbfc175fe19457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corey Richardson <corey@octayn.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:39:51 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Better import of _imaging

---
 PIL/Image.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PIL/Image.py b/PIL/Image.py
index ec4d61ca7..e97623888 100644
--- a/PIL/Image.py
+++ b/PIL/Image.py
@@ -51,9 +51,7 @@ try:
     # the "open" function to identify files, but you cannot load
     # them.  Note that other modules should not refer to _imaging
     # directly; import Image and use the Image.core variable instead.
-    import _imaging
-    core = _imaging
-    del _imaging
+    import _imaging as core
 except ImportError, v:
     core = _imaging_not_installed()
     if str(v)[:20] == "Module use of python" and warnings: