From 5c557adb6bd8184c51f438202c587be7c240e6eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Papadopoulos
 <3234522+DimitriPapadopoulos@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 09:59:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Proper initialization for `__version__`

Also, AppVeyor is not used any more, is it?
---
 tabulate/__init__.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tabulate/__init__.py b/tabulate/__init__.py
index 249b3ff..2876fda 100644
--- a/tabulate/__init__.py
+++ b/tabulate/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@
 try:
     __version__ = _version("tabulate")
 except _PackageNotFoundError:
-    __version__ = "unknown"
+    try:
+        from .version import version as __version__  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError:
+        __version__ = "unknown"
 
 import warnings
 from collections import namedtuple
@@ -35,11 +38,6 @@ def _is_file(f):
 
 
 __all__ = ["tabulate", "tabulate_formats", "simple_separated_format"]
-try:
-    from .version import version as __version__  # noqa: F401
-except ImportError:
-    pass  # running __init__.py as a script, AppVeyor pytests
-
 
 # minimum extra space in headers
 MIN_PADDING = 2