MAINT: Remove outdated version checks.

Because Numpy 1.8.0 will no longer supports Python versions < 2.6 we
no longer need to check for that and can also remove the code that is
specific to those earlier versions.

To make this a bit safer, the toplevel setup.py file now contains a
check of the Python version number and raises an error when run by an
unsupported version.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6989a7a97..ae7f6f677 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ import sys
 import re
 import subprocess
 
+if sys.version_info[:2] < (2, 6) or (3, 0) <= sys.version_info[0:2] < (3, 2):
+    raise RuntimeError("Python version 2.6, 2.7 or >= 3.2 required.")
+
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     import builtins
 else: