diff --git a/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py b/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
index 86dc7118..ac8e7bcc 100644
--- a/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
+++ b/src/pushsource/_impl/compat_attr.py
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
-from importlib.metadata import version
 import attr
 
+# importlib.metadata is available for py3.8 and higher
+# previous versions get it from importlib_metadata installed
+# from importlib-metadata
+try:
+    from importlib.metadata import version
+except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
+    from importlib_metadata import version
+
+
 # Wrappers for attr module to deal with some incompatibilities between versions