diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index c4f93f23..879d0d31 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ class LoadImagesAndLabels(Dataset):  # for training/testing
         # Rectangular Training  https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov3/issues/232
         self.pad_rectangular = rect
         if self.pad_rectangular:
+            from PIL import Image
             bi = np.floor(np.arange(n) / batch_size).astype(np.int)  # batch index
             nb = bi[-1] + 1  # number of batches
-            from PIL import Image
 
             # Read image shapes
             sp = 'data' + os.sep + path.replace('.txt', '.shapes').split(os.sep)[-1]  # shapefile path