# HG changeset patch
# User cmlenz
# Date 1214903258 0
# Node ID 950667d42a0a338043b927b304f4b652f217b4f3
# Parent  584aa6bfbe54c0237a9c16043cc0b82c98d20b86
Make the code that retrieves the Genshi version via `pkg_resources` handle the case of missing egg metadata more gracefully. Closes #241.

diff --git a/genshi/__init__.py b/genshi/__init__.py
--- a/genshi/__init__.py
+++ b/genshi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Edgewall Software
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Edgewall Software
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@
 
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 try:
-    __version__ = __import__('pkg_resources').get_distribution('Genshi').version
+    from pkg_resources import get_distribution, ResolutionError
+    try:
+        __version__ = get_distribution('Genshi').version
+    except ResolutionError:
+        __version__ = None # unknown
 except ImportError:
-    pass
+    __version__ = None # unknown
 
 from genshi.core import *
 from genshi.input import ParseError, XML, HTML