python2.6-bugs

[Marten de Vries]

These methods aren't available in Python 2.6 while we'd like to support that version:

- subprocess.check_output
- datetime.timedelta.total_seconds
- argparse
- others?

Please use this thread to report other python 2.6-related bugs, and use it to discuss solutions.

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

subprocess.check_output is probably simulatable with subprocess.Popen
datetime.timedelta.total_seconds is a very simple function: Equivalent to (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10**6) / 10**6 computed with true division enabled.
argparse is available as a separate project for 2.6; in ubuntu lucid it's e.g. in the python-argparse package.

[Marten de Vries (marten-de-vries)]

Subprocess and datetime bugs are fixed now. So it should now run on 2.6 by just installing argparse (next to the normal depencdencies).