support for python 2.6

[mpasserini]

Hi,

I downloaded the latest version from GIT (1.0.0), in the changelog it says that it supports 2.6:

"0.0.9

• Break backwards compatibility: the column definition to the foreign data wrapper constructor is now a dictionary of column names to their types.
• Add python2.6 compatibility"

But it does not work at make install:

[root@ Multicorn]# make install Python version is 2.6 ./preflight-check.sh /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/pgsql-9.3/lib' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/pgsql-9.3/share/extension' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/pgsql-9.3/share/extension' /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/share/doc/pgsql/extension' /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 multicorn.so '/usr/pgsql-9.3/lib/multicorn.so' cp ./setup.py ./setup--1.0.0.py sed -i -e "s/VERSION/1.0.0-dev/g" ./setup--1.0.0.py /usr/bin/python ./setup--1.0.0.py install Traceback (most recent call last): File "./setup--1.0.0.py", line 12, in include_dirs = [get_pg_config(d) for d in ("includedir", "pkgincludedir", "includedir-server")] File "./setup--1.0.0.py", line 6, in get_pg_config r = subprocess.check_output([pg_config, '--%s' % kind]) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'check_output' make: *\ [python_code] Error 1

It's because subprocess does not contain the check_output function:

import subprocess dir(subprocess) ['CalledProcessError', 'MAXFD', 'PIPE', 'Popen', 'STDOUT', 'TimeoutExpired', '_PIPE_BUF', 'all', 'builtins', 'doc', 'file', 'name', 'package', '_active', '_cleanup', '_demo_posix', '_demo_windows', '_eintr_retry_call', '_has_poll', 'call', 'check_call', 'errno', 'fcntl', 'gc', 'list2cmdline', 'mswindows', 'os', 'pickle', 'select', 'signal', 'sys', 'time', 'traceback', 'types']

I'm trying to install it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

[rdunklau]

Sorry, the support for Python 2.6 seems to have been dropped along the way. Given now that python2.7 has been released for close to 4 years, 2.6 support isn't likely to come back.

[asya999]

You can look at my pull request #105 which adds compatibility with Python 2.6 and that allowed me to install on CentOS without any special steps.