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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Edgewall Software
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/License.
+#
+# This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+# individuals. For the exact contribution history, see the revision
+# history and logs, available at http://babel.edgewall.org/log/.
+
+"""Integrated collection of utilities that assist in internationalizing and
+localizing applications.
+
+This package is basically composed of two major parts:
+
+ * tools to build and work with ``gettext`` message catalogs
+ * a Python interface to the CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository), providing
+   access to various locale display names, localized number and date
+   formatting, etc.
+
+:see: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
+:see: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gettext.html
+:see: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/
+"""
+
+from babel.core import *
+
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+try:
+    from pkg_resources import get_distribution, ResolutionError
+    try:
+        __version__ = get_distribution('Babel').version
+    except ResolutionError:
+        __version__ = None # unknown
+except ImportError:
+    __version__ = None # unknown