support 3.8-only metadata fetching. Closes #7974

quarto-dev · Dec 19, 2023 · ccfdc52 · ccfdc52
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commit ccfdc52
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/src/resources/capabilities/jupyter.py b/src/resources/capabilities/jupyter.py
@@ -15,11 +15,17 @@
 
 def discover_package(pkg):
   sys.stdout.write('\n' + pkg + ': ')
+  v = 'null'
   try:
-    imp = importlib.import_module(pkg)
-    sys.stdout.write(str(imp.__version__))
+    try:
+      from importlib.metadata import version
+      v = version(pkg)
+    except ImportError:
+      imp = importlib.import_module(pkg)
+      v = str(imp.__version__)
   except Exception:
-    sys.stdout.write('null')
+    pass
+  sys.stdout.write(v)
 
 discover_package('jupyter_core')  
 discover_package('nbformat')