diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f56b9dbfa..7a5816bca 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 	* Escape hyphens in the manpage
 	* Make the delete key work
 	* Allow ~ to be used in the path in the add command
+	* Allow commands that are .pyc files to be used
 
 === Deluge 1.2.0_rc3 (01 November 2009) ===
 ==== Core ====
diff --git a/deluge/ui/console/main.py b/deluge/ui/console/main.py
index 6ab26498c..749f8d826 100644
--- a/deluge/ui/console/main.py
+++ b/deluge/ui/console/main.py
@@ -124,10 +124,12 @@ def load_commands(command_dir, exclude=[]):
     try:
         commands = []
         for filename in os.listdir(command_dir):
-            if filename.split('.')[0] in exclude or filename.startswith('_') or not filename.endswith('.py'):
+            if filename.split('.')[0] in exclude or filename.startswith('_'):
                 continue
-            cmd = get_command(filename[:-3])
-            aliases = [ filename[:-3] ]
+            if not (filename.endswith('.py') or filename.endswith('.pyc')):
+                continue
+            cmd = get_command(filename.split('.')[len(filename.split('.')) - 2])
+            aliases = [ filename.split('.')[len(filename.split('.')) - 2] ]
             aliases.extend(cmd.aliases)
             for a in aliases:
                 commands.append((a, cmd))