Remove support for Python 2.6

Author: stefankoegl

jsonpatch.py

@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@
     basestring = (bytes, str)  # pylint: disable=C0103,W0622
 
 
+# The "object_pairs_hook" parameter is used to handle duplicate keys when
+# loading a JSON object.
+json.load = functools.partial(json.load, object_pairs_hook=multidict)
+
+
 class JsonPatchException(Exception):
     """Base Json Patch exception"""
 
@@ -96,27 +101,6 @@ def multidict(ordered_pairs):
     )
 
 
-def get_loadjson():
-    """ adds the object_pairs_hook parameter to json.load when possible
-
-    The "object_pairs_hook" parameter is used to handle duplicate keys when
-    loading a JSON object. This parameter does not exist in Python 2.6. This
-    methods returns an unmodified json.load for Python 2.6 and a partial
-    function with object_pairs_hook set to multidict for Python versions that
-    support the parameter. """
-
-    if sys.version_info >= (3, 3):
-        args = inspect.signature(json.load).parameters
-    else:
-        args = inspect.getargspec(json.load).args
-    if 'object_pairs_hook' not in args:
-        return json.load
-
-    return functools.partial(json.load, object_pairs_hook=multidict)
-
-json.load = get_loadjson()
-
-
 def apply_patch(doc, patch, in_place=False):
     """Apply list of patches to specified json document.
 

setup.py

@@ -23,17 +23,12 @@
 )
 
 REQUIREMENTS = list(open('requirements.txt'))
-if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
-    REQUIREMENTS += ['simplejson']
 
 if has_setuptools:
     OPTIONS = {
         'install_requires': REQUIREMENTS
     }
 else:
-    if sys.version_info < (2, 6):
-        warnings.warn('No setuptools installed. Be sure that you have '
-                      'json or simplejson package installed')
     OPTIONS = {}
 
 AUTHOR_EMAIL = metadata['author']
@@ -61,7 +56,6 @@
     'Operating System :: OS Independent',
     'Programming Language :: Python',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-    'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
     'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',