diff --git a/src/badger/forms.py b/src/badger/forms.py
index f8bb7ea..f5c6125 100644
--- a/src/badger/forms.py
+++ b/src/badger/forms.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
 import base64
-import StringIO
 
 from django import forms
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -8,6 +9,11 @@ from PIL import Image
 
 from .models import Badge
 
+try:
+    from cStringIO import StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    from StringIO import StringIO
+
 
 class BadgeForm(forms.ModelForm):
     image = forms.ImageField(label=_(u'Image'), required=False)
@@ -31,7 +37,7 @@ class BadgeForm(forms.ModelForm):
         if self.cleaned_data['image']:
             img = Image.open(self.cleaned_data['image'])
             img = img.resize((50, 50), Image.ANTIALIAS)
-            f = StringIO.StringIO()
+            f = StringIO()
             img.save(f, 'png')
             instance.image_base64 = f.getvalue().encode('base64')
             f.close()
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