Protect against missing _summain

This is needed for "python setup.py --version" and other reasons.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/summainlib/__init__.py b/summainlib/__init__.py
index d45942b..c76e253 100644
--- a/summainlib/__init__.py
+++ b/summainlib/__init__.py
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ import time
 import urllib
 import errno
 
-import _summain
+try:
+    import _summain
+except ImportError:
+    # We need to import this package when running setup.py,
+    # and for that we don't need _summain.
+    pass
 from .version import __version__, __version_info__