From 83feb86713d17775f02fa52b069d7afabfb9369d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:21:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/chm/input.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/input.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/input.py
index 29bf9adc75..e2a270f2b8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/input.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/chm/input.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import os, uuid
 from lxml import html
 
 from calibre.customize.conversion import InputFormatPlugin
-from calibre.ebooks.chm.reader import CHMReader, match_string
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
 from calibre.utils.localization import get_lang
 from calibre.utils.filenames import ascii_filename
@@ -21,6 +20,7 @@ class CHMInput(InputFormatPlugin):
     file_types  = set(['chm'])
 
     def _chmtohtml(self, output_dir, chm_path, no_images, log):
+        from calibre.ebooks.chm.reader import CHMReader
         log.debug('Opening CHM file')
         rdr = CHMReader(chm_path, log)
         log.debug('Extracting CHM to %s' % output_dir)
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ class CHMInput(InputFormatPlugin):
         # check that node is a normal node (not a comment, DOCTYPE, etc.)
         # (normal nodes have string tags)
         if isinstance(node.tag, basestring):
+            from calibre.ebooks.chm.reader import match_string
+
             if match_string(node.tag, 'object') and match_string(node.attrib['type'], 'text/sitemap'):
                 for child in node:
                     if match_string(child.tag,'param') and match_string(child.attrib['name'], 'name'):