nflgame with Python 2.6

[anontemp123]

According to https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame :

"nflgame does not yet work on Python 3, but it should work with Python 2.6 and 2.7."

I get this error when importing:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/nflgame/sched.py", line 34, in _create_schedule
if (datetime.datetime.utcnow() - last_updated).total_seconds() >= day:
AttributeError: 'datetime.timedelta' object has no attribute 'total_seconds'

Anyway to work around this without installing 2.7? I might not be able to upgrade on one of the machines I use.

Also, is there a proper way to remove nflgame? The pip command installed four packages for me. I'm unsure if I have to uninstall in a specific order or anything like that.

Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4, nflgame, ordereddict, pytz
Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4
Running setup.py install for nflgame
changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/nflgame-update-players from 644 to 755
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/nflgame-update-players to 755
Running setup.py install for ordereddict
Running setup.py install for pytz
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4 nflgame ordereddict pytz

[anontemp123]

One more question: Will nflgame work if installed locally (under a user account) instead of globally (via root)?

[BurntSushi]

Python 2.6 is ancient at this point, and you really should try to upgrade if you can.

Uninstalling nflgame should be done with pip uninstall nflgame. I'm not sure if that will also uninstall dependencies. (Such is life with pip.)

AttributeError: 'datetime.timedelta' object has no attribute 'total_seconds'

Mmhmm. Yes. That is annoying. I will have to fix that. Hopefully later today.

Some day, when I add Python 3 compatibility, I will probably drop support for Python 2.6.

[anontemp123]

All right so I should pip uninstall nflgame and then pip install nflgame again whenever you fix that? (Is that the best way to upgrade?)

[rkmaddox]

I have nflgame and nfldb installed for my user and both work fine.

[BurntSushi]

To upgrade, you should use pip install --upgrade nflgame.

And yes, nflgame will work if you install it with --user. It will also work inside a virtual environment.

[Kirkman]

I made a little tweak to sched.py to fix 2.6 compatibility, but I can't seem to send you a pull request (I'm getting a weird error "Pull request creation failed. Validation failed: Base sha can't be blank")

Anyway, see it here:
https://github.com/Kirkman/nflgame/compare/BurntSushi:master...Kirkman:patch-1?expand=1

[hugovk]

It's probably about time to drop support for Python 2.6 at this point:

• Unsupported since 2013-10-29
• 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 (Drop support for Python 2.6? pypa/pip#3955)
• Not much PyPI traffic (June 2016) Deprecate/Drop Support for Python 3.3? pypa/pip#3796

Here's the pip installs for nflgame from PyPI for the last year:

$ pypinfo -d 365 --percent --pip nflgame pyversion
python_version percent download_count
-------------- ------- --------------
2.7              76.1%          3,144
3.5               9.4%            390
3.6               8.5%            352
3.4               5.3%            220
2.6               0.5%             22
3.7               0.1%              3
None              0.0%              1

[BurntSushi]

@hugovk You don't need to make the case. The only thing blocking progress on this is the will to do it.