diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 2d7318d42..c68a01b61 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ PrecompileTools = "1"
 PGFPlotsX = "1"
 Unzip = "0.1 - 0.2"
 PlotlyBase = "0.7 - 0.8"
-PythonPlot = "1"
+PythonPlot = "1 - 1.0.2"
 UnitfulLatexify = "1"
 RecipesPipeline = "0.6.10"
 LaTeXStrings = "1"
diff --git a/src/backends.jl b/src/backends.jl
index a4ecb3948..57e6c75fe 100644
--- a/src/backends.jl
+++ b/src/backends.jl
@@ -1067,23 +1067,21 @@ const _pyplot_scale = [:identity, :ln, :log2, :log10]
 _post_imports(::PythonPlotBackend) = @eval begin
     const PythonPlot = Main.PythonPlot
     const PythonCall = Main.PythonPlot.PythonCall
-end
-_runtime_init(::PythonPlotBackend) = @eval begin
     mpl_toolkits = PythonCall.pyimport("mpl_toolkits")
-    mpl          = PythonCall.pyimport("matplotlib")
-    numpy        = PythonCall.pyimport("numpy")
+    mpl = PythonCall.pyimport("matplotlib")
+    numpy = PythonCall.pyimport("numpy")
 
     PythonCall.pyimport("mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1")
     numpy.seterr(invalid = "ignore")
 
-    PythonPlot.ioff()  # we don't want every command to update the figure
+    PythonPlot.ioff() # we don't want every command to update the figure
 end
+_runtime_init(::PythonPlotBackend) = nothing
 
 function _initialize_backend(pkg::PythonPlotBackend)
     _pre_imports(pkg)
     @eval Main begin
         import PythonPlot
-        export PythonPlot
         $(_check_compat)(PythonPlot)
     end
     _post_imports(pkg)