diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0186a03a80..5409889058 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-08-24  Lars-Peter Clausen  <lars@metafoo.de>
+
+	* plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-fu-eval.py: Moved execution into
+	global namespace. Fixes import statements inside of evaled code.
+
 2008-08-24  Lars-Peter Clausen  <lars@metafoo.de>
 
 	* plug-ins/pygimp/pygimp-pdb.c (pdb_getattro): Fix wrong strcmp
diff --git a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-eval.py b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-eval.py
index 5335c22b82..77a30cff84 100755
--- a/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-eval.py
+++ b/plug-ins/pygimp/plug-ins/python-eval.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def code_eval(code):
     if code == '-':
         import sys
         code = sys.stdin
-    exec code
+    exec code in globals()
  
 register(
         "python-fu-eval",