On Fri, Oct 03 2014, David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> wrote:

> "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:
>
>> This allows us to capture stdout and stderr separately, and do other
>> explicit subprocess manipulation without resorting to external
>> packages.  It should be compatible with Python 2.6 and later
>> (including the 3.x series), although with 2.6 you'll need the external
>> argparse package.
>
> As reported on IRC, this version has been working ok for me for a week
> or so. I haven't marked it ready to push because iirc, the python 2.6
> support doesn't really work and is doomed to be removed.

Maybe just amend to "It is compatible with Python 2.7 and later...", with
dropping the comment about external argparse package?

Currently also tests don't work with Python 2.6 -- I have a patch that
would "fix" this but probably it is just noise at this time (and I'd still 
need to do the harderst part -- write the commit message).

> d

Tomi