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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Andrew Resch <andrewresch@gmail.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Deluge and is licensed under GNU General Public License 3.0, or later, with
+# the additional special exception to link portions of this program with the OpenSSL library.
+# See LICENSE for more details.
+#
+
+"""
+This module is used to handle the importing of libtorrent and also controls
+the minimum versions of libtorrent that this version of Deluge supports.
+
+Example:
+    >>> from deluge._libtorrent import lt
+
+"""
+from deluge.common import VersionSplit, get_version
+from deluge.error import LibtorrentImportError
+
+try:
+    import deluge.libtorrent as lt
+except ImportError:
+    try:
+        import libtorrent as lt
+    except ImportError as ex:
+        raise LibtorrentImportError('No libtorrent library found: %s' % (ex))
+
+
+REQUIRED_VERSION = '1.2.0.0'
+LT_VERSION = lt.__version__
+
+if VersionSplit(LT_VERSION) < VersionSplit(REQUIRED_VERSION):
+    raise LibtorrentImportError(
+        f'Deluge {get_version()} requires libtorrent >= {REQUIRED_VERSION}'
+    )