diff --git a/src/gui/pythonwidget.cc b/src/gui/pythonwidget.cc
index 7e67d333fbb6723b60d9b8fc57548d299de7e448..791ac0f59db6f930a552bba20f1d51f21d7852f9 100644
--- a/src/gui/pythonwidget.cc
+++ b/src/gui/pythonwidget.cc
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ namespace gepetto {
         PythonQtObjectPtr mainContext = PythonQt::self()->getMainModule();
         PythonQtObjectPtr sys = PythonQt::self()->importModule ("sys");
         sys.evalScript ("argv = ['gepetto-gui']");
+        mainContext.evalScript ("import PythonQt");
         console_ = new PythonQtScriptingConsole(NULL, mainContext);
 
         PythonQt::self()->registerQObjectClassNames(QStringList()