[Neuroimaging] Drop Python 2.6 for nibabel?

[Ariel Rokem]

Besides, (at least one of) the core Python dev team asks nicely:
http://www.snarky.ca/stop-using-python-2-6



On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:53 PM, David Gutman <dagutman at gmail.com> wrote:

> agreed-- I think 8 years is a fairly good support period...    I haven't
> made the switch to the python 3.0+ series, but I'd be surprised if there
> were a lot of systems still using 2.6     I think the main challenge might
> be people using very old versions of REDHAT/Centos that may still? be
> dependent on 2.6 since YUM is dependent on it.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:46 PM JB Poline <jbpoline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sounds most reasonable to me.
>> JB
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yarik current has a PR into nibabel that needs `collections.Counter`,
>>> available in Python >= 2.7 [1]
>>>
>>> https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/pull/437
>>>
>>> At the moment, nibabel supports Python 2.6, but Python 2.6 was
>>> released in 2008 [2] isn't maintained any more [3], and numpy is
>>> dropping Python 2.6 in the next release [4].  So, I propose that we
>>> drop Python 2.6 support for nibabel as well.  Any objections?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/pull/437
>>> [2] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>>> [3] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
>>> [4]
>>> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst#dropped-support
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