diff --git a/PIL/TgaImagePlugin.py b/PIL/TgaImagePlugin.py
index 82d469db3..b30d8dcb0 100644
--- a/PIL/TgaImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/TgaImagePlugin.py
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ class TgaImageFile(ImageFile.ImageFile):
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Write TGA file
 
+o8 = _binary.o8
 o16 = _binary.o16le
 o32 = _binary.o32le
 
diff --git a/Tests/test_imagefile.py b/Tests/test_imagefile.py
index e260a24dd..4b8c84299 100644
--- a/Tests/test_imagefile.py
+++ b/Tests/test_imagefile.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ def test_parser():
     assert_image_equal(*roundtrip("PPM"))
     assert_image_equal(*roundtrip("TIFF"))
     assert_image_equal(*roundtrip("XBM"))
+    assert_image_equal(*roundtrip("TGA"))
 
     im1, im2 = roundtrip("JPEG") # lossy compression
     assert_image(im1, im2.mode, im2.size)