From 168046cf9864efe84e63707d853108c570b6989f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abhinav Sarkar <abhinav.sarkar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:28:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] changed the code related to importing ElementTree to support
 python version > 2.5

---
 src/api.py      | 5 +++--
 src/playlist.py | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api.py b/src/api.py
index b3f7614..2d20cb7 100644
--- a/src/api.py
+++ b/src/api.py
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ class Api(object):
 
 from datetime import datetime
 import md5
-import sys
+import platform
 import time
 import urllib
 import urllib2
@@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ from tasteometer import Tasteometer
 from track import Track
 from user import User
 
-if sys.version.startswith('2.5'):
+python_version = platform.python_version_tuple()
+if python_version[0] == 2 and python_version[1] >= 5:
     import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree
 else:
     try:
diff --git a/src/playlist.py b/src/playlist.py
index d26e635..caff9a8 100644
--- a/src/playlist.py
+++ b/src/playlist.py
@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ class Playlist(LastfmBase):
         return "<lastfm.Playlist: %s>" % self.url
 
 import StringIO
-import sys
+import platform
 from error import LastfmInvalidParametersError
 
-if sys.version.startswith('2.5'):
+python_version = platform.python_version_tuple()
+if python_version[0] == 2 and python_version[1] >= 5:
     import xml.etree.cElementTree as ElementTree
 else:
     try:
@@ -62,4 +63,5 @@ else:
         try:
             import ElementTree
         except ImportError:
+            from error import LastfmError
             raise LastfmError("Install ElementTree package for using python-lastfm")
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