diff --git a/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py b/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
index ff01475b..312ccb0a 100644
--- a/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
+++ b/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ def set_name(self, name):
 def get_catalog(catalog_name):
     from packaging import version
     import databroker
-    if version.parse(databroker.__version__).major == 1:
+    db_version_major = version.parse(databroker.__version__).major == 1
+    if db_version_major == 1:
         raise ValueError("Non-tiled version of Databroker is installed")
     
     from tiled.client import from_uri