From 683ecde2e10408b0fd25c76bf555899fa59b53f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Silvester <steven.silvester@ieee.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:27:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Start deprecation of python 2.6

---
 TODO.txt            | 1 +
 skimage/__init__.py | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO.txt b/TODO.txt
index 02bd9ead..3f73ebdb 100644
--- a/TODO.txt
+++ b/TODO.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Version 0.14
 
 Version 0.13
 ------------
+* Require Python 2.7+, remove warning in `__init__.py`.
 * Remove deprecated `None` defaults for `skimage.exposure.rescale_intensity`
 * Remove deprecated `skimage.filters.canny` import in `filters/__init__.py`
   file (canny is now in `skimage.feature.canny`).
diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py
index 2b152156..673562a7 100644
--- a/skimage/__init__.py
+++ b/skimage/__init__.py
@@ -156,4 +156,9 @@ else:
         _raise_build_error(e)
     from .util.dtype import *
 
+
+if sys.version.startswith('2.6'):
+    warnings.warn("Python 2.6 is deprecated and will not be supported in scikit-image 0.13+")
+
+
 del warnings, functools, osp, imp, sys