{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703/events","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703","id":123127647,"number":5703,"title":"Python 2.6 string format syntax errors in matplotlib 1.4.3","user":{"login":"jayvdb","id":15092,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15092?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb","html_url":"https://github.com/jayvdb","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jayvdb/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-12-20T02:31:21Z","updated_at":"2015-12-20T20:18:51Z","closed_at":null,"body":"There are quite a few Python 2.6 string format syntax errors in 1.4.3.  I found them using https://github.com/xZise/flake8-string-format (and `git grep {}` due to https://github.com/xZise/flake8-string-format/issues/10).\r\n\r\nSome have already been fixed by @montefra in 1.5.x:\r\n* 6155084b\r\n* 6ac01bd02\r\n* 0a66aee1\r\n\r\nI've submitted two PRs to fix other related issues:\r\n* #5701\r\n* #5702\r\n\r\nmatplotlib [1.4.x](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/21f46ff14ea65eeb725a4fd6c36642dddf3fea79)  [supposedly](http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html) supports Python 2.6, but the 1.4.3 release indicates that it is the last patch release, and there is no 1.4.x branch that I can submit PRs to.\r\nIronically, this means that 1.5.x supports Python 2.6 better than the 1.4.x series.\r\n\r\nI've packaged five commits ready to be merged into 1.4.x, if desired.\r\nhttps://github.com/jayvdb/matplotlib/tree/v1.4.3-py26-str.format"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/comments/166151303","html_url":"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703#issuecomment-166151303","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/5703","id":166151303,"user":{"login":"tacaswell","id":199813,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/199813?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell","html_url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tacaswell/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-20T20:18:51Z","updated_at":"2015-12-20T20:18:51Z","body":"Thanks for taking the time to look into this.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately,  we no longer support the 1.4.x series.\r\n\r\nThe 1.5 series does not 'officially' support 2.6, but we are still testing it against 2.6 and if you put in a PR to 1.5.x to fix these formatting issues I will merge it.\r\n\r\nGoing forward we will not support py2.6 at all (there is 2.6 incompatible code currently on both the 2.x and master branches). "}}