diff --git a/plumbum/cli/image.py b/plumbum/cli/image.py
index b207fa3..502af80 100644
--- a/plumbum/cli/image.py
+++ b/plumbum/cli/image.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function, division
 
 from plumbum import colors
 from .termsize import get_terminal_size
-import . as cli
+from .. import cli
 import sys
 
 class Image(object):

diff --git a/tests/test_color.py b/tests/test_color.py
index 5f4cd3f..2b8105d 100644
--- a/tests/test_color.py
+++ b/tests/test_color.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import pytest
 from plumbum.colorlib.styles import ANSIStyle, Color, AttributeNotFound, ColorNotFound
 from plumbum.colorlib.names import color_html, FindNearest
 
+# Just check to see if this file is importable
+from plumbum.cli.image import Image
 
 class TestNearestColor:
     def test_exact(self):

SyntaxError in plumbum/cli/image.py
image.py contains the line

import . as cli

All versions of python I tried (3.6, 3.5, 2.7) raise SyntaxError reading this line. According to the Python Language Reference, such syntax of the import statement is not allowed. What exactly is the purpose of this line? And how to achieve this purpose in legal python?
tests/test_color.py::TestNearestColor::test_allcolors tests/test_color.py::TestColorLoad::test_rgb tests/test_color.py::TestColorLoad::test_simple_name tests/test_color.py::TestColorLoad::test_different_names tests/test_color.py::TestColorLoad::test_loading_methods tests/test_color.py::TestANSIColor::test_ansi