Syntax errors on Python 2.6

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Originally reported by: Mikko Vatanen (BitBucket: mikkov, GitHub: @mikkov?)

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Installing on Centos6.6 / Python 2.6 with pip prints the following error messages:

[root@dev~]# pip install --upgrade pylint

... cut ...

Running setup.py install for astroid
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/astroid/tests/unittest_inference.py', 524, 44, ' self.assertSetEqual({n.class for n in xxx.infered()},\n'))

SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/astroid/tests/unittest_scoped_nodes.py', 620, 39, "        expected_methods = {'__init__', 'class_method', 'method', 'static_method'}\n"))

SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/astroid/tests/unittest_modutils.py', 248, 41, "            {os.path.join(package, x) for x in ['__init__.py', 'module.py', 'module2.py', 'noendingnewline.py', 'nonregr.py']})\n"))

SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/astroid/tests/unittest_brain.py', 73, 33, '        self.assertSetEqual({"a", "b", "c"}, set(base.instance_attrs))\n'))

SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/astroid/modutils.py', 69, 61, '        get_python_lib(standard_lib=True, prefix=sys.prefix),\n'))

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/astroid/issue/87

[pylint-bot]

Original comment by Claudiu Popa (BitBucket: PCManticore, GitHub: @PCManticore):

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We don't support Python 2.6 anymore, since Pylint 1.4 and astroid 1.3.