[atlas] RIPE Atlas Tools and Python versions

As some of you may already know, we’ve been working on a new 
command-line toolkit that will let you do nifty things like:

  * List measurement and probe metadata
  * Generate reports from measurement results
  * Stream measurement results

It’s coming along quite nicely, but I’m running into just too many cases 
where support for Python 2.6 is (a) making my job harder, and (b) making 
my code uglier. Given that (a) means I spend more time fixing 
compatibility rather than adding features and (b) just makes me sad, I 
wanted to ask the community how important Python 2.6 is to you.

So here’s the question:

    Of those of you who would find such a tool interesting/useful, how
    many of you *only* have access to a computer running Python 2.6?

Such systems include CentOS distributions earlier than 7, and 
corresponding RedHat Enterprise systems. If you’re using Debian, or 
Ubuntu, you should already have 2.7 by default, and if you’re on Gentoo 
or Arch, you probably have both 2.7 and 3.5 already. I understand that 
Apple’s OSX is running 2.7 these days as well.

If I don’t get a wave of messages about how very important 2.6 is to 
your collective health and wellbeing, I’m going to consider this a 
non-issue and drop support for 2.6.

Thanks for your input everyone :-)

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