From 5f65e8096eb818fed711713ae65328f14701394a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Casper da Costa-Luis <casper.dcl@physics.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:54:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] back to initial approach

---
 dvc/utils/compat.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dvc/utils/compat.py b/dvc/utils/compat.py
index 4b2f2a25b..0ad308c37 100644
--- a/dvc/utils/compat.py
+++ b/dvc/utils/compat.py
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ is_py3 = _ver[0] == 3
 DEFAULT_ENCODING = sys.getdefaultencoding()
 
 # https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#RecursionError
-if _ver[:2] < (3, 5):
+try:
+    RecursionError
+except NameError:  # _ver[:2] < (3, 5)
     RecursionError = RuntimeError