setup.py Python 2.6 failure

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  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
    File "/tmp/pip-build-QgQ8RT/pdfminer.six/setup.py", line 12, in <module>
      install_requires=['six', 'chardet'] if sys.version_info.major>2 else ['six'],
  AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major'
  Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
  Traceback (most recent call last):

    File "<string>", line 20, in <module>

    File "/tmp/pip-build-QgQ8RT/pdfminer.six/setup.py", line 12, in <module>

      install_requires=['six', 'chardet'] if sys.version_info.major>2 else ['six'],

  AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major'