From 905a37fdff51453fee000c8e8e188aea4420e613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tieqiong <123656525+Tieqiong@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:30:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix not a package type error for importlib (#193)

* fix not a package type error for importlib

* [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit hooks

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
index 7de59ed0..cbfdc911 100644
--- a/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
+++ b/src/diffpy/pdfgui/gui/pdfguiglobals.py
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@
 isAltered = False
 
 # Resolve APPDATADIR base path to application data files.
-_mydir = os.path.abspath(str(files(__name__)))
+try:
+    _mydir = os.path.abspath(str(files(__name__)))
+except TypeError:  # For Python < 3.12
+    _mydir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
 _upbasedir = os.path.normpath(_mydir + "/../../..")
 _development_mode = os.path.basename(_upbasedir) == "src" and os.path.isfile(
     os.path.join(_upbasedir, "../pyproject.toml")