From 1f32624e8bb33926d7d836ddf3b71772a2efb88e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:14:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] use a try / except to check if argparse is a needed
 dependency

---
 setup.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9b299085..6c3a72a1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ import platform
 VERSION = "3.0" # find a better way to do so.
 
 requires = ['feedgenerator', 'jinja2', 'pygments', 'docutils', 'pytz']
-if sys.version_info < (2,7):
+
+try:
+    import argparse
+except ImportError:
     requires.append('argparse')
 
 scripts = ['bin/pelican', 'tools/pelican-themes', 'tools/pelican-import', 'tools/pelican-quickstart']