Remove unsupported Python 2.6

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Remove unsupported Python 2.6 #58

Closed hugovk closed 6 years ago

hugovk commented 6 years ago

Reasons for dropping 2.6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Version_history
https://snarky.ca/stop-using-python-2-6/
http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/04/stop-supporting-python26.html
http://www.python3statement.org
Current pip 9 deprecates Python 2.6 support, pip 10 won't support it (https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3955)
Not much PyPI traffic (June 2016) https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3796

chfoo commented 6 years ago

It would be very good to stop supporting 2.6, but we can't until we transition off the old Warrior VM to a newer one or whatever solution we use. So this will have to wait, hopefully not too long.