Unhelpful error message when trying to use get-pip with Python 2.6

[offbyone]

get-pip.py fails when run with Python 2.6. That's expected, but it should fail in a way that directs the user to bootstrap.pypa.io/2.6/get-pip.py

Sadly, due to cleared scrollback (and the fact that I was doing this with Ansible, which doesn't exactly give great error messages) I don't have the exact error message, but it was a SyntaxError on a set literal.

[hugovk]

Perhaps something like #25?

[brainwane]

Now that Python 2.6 is no longer supported, shall we close this issue?

[xavfernandez]

Now that Python 2.6 is no longer supported, shall we close this issue?

Well, the get-pip.py for Python 2.6 lives in https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.6/get-pip.py precisely precisely because Python 2.6 isn't supported: I think the point of this issue is "How can we make the legacy get-pip.py scripts more discoverable ?

#25 seems like a good idea but if I'm not mistaken, it would mean that the get-pip.py program will never be allowed to use python3 only syntax:

$ cat test.py 
import sys

if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
    print('Abort !')
    sys.exit(0)

async def toto():
  return 45

$ python2.7 test.py 
  File "test3.py", line 7
    async def toto():
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It does not print Abort! (or any possibly useful message) in Python 2, it simply crashes.

Maybe a https://bootstrap.pypa.io/README.txt could (marginally) help ?

[pradyunsg]

This should be fixed with #100 now. At least in the newer templates.