diff --git a/PIL/IptcImagePlugin.py b/PIL/IptcImagePlugin.py
index 02e3360ff..157b73509 100644
--- a/PIL/IptcImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/IptcImagePlugin.py
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ def getiptcinfo(im):
         # get raw data from the IPTC/NAA tag (PhotoShop tags the data
         # as 4-byte integers, so we cannot use the get method...)
         try:
-            type, data = im.tag.tagdata[TiffImagePlugin.IPTC_NAA_CHUNK]
+            data = im.tag.tagdata[TiffImagePlugin.IPTC_NAA_CHUNK]
         except (AttributeError, KeyError):
             pass