From de43800deb2fa524eea054d1e8b7185814d58dbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darshit Shah <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 21:17:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] pygnulib: Don't crash immediately on older Python
 versions

* pygnulib/constants.py: sys.version_info is a named tuple only since
Python 2.7. Use the indexed version to support older versions.
Exit out if the installed Python is older than 2.7.
---
 ChangeLog             | 6 ++++++
 pygnulib/constants.py | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b0aa8e29d..c15ba9736 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2018-10-13  Darshit Shah   <address@hidden>
+
+	* pygnulib/constants.py: sys.version_info is a named tuple only since
+	Python 2.7. Use the indexed version to support older versions.
+	Exit out if the installed Python is older than 2.7.
+
 2018-10-13  Darshit Shah   <address@hidden>
 
 	* bootstrap.conf: Introduce option use_pygnulib
diff --git a/pygnulib/constants.py b/pygnulib/constants.py
index 2dc64e6b6..e6d23cf54 100644
--- a/pygnulib/constants.py
+++ b/pygnulib/constants.py
@@ -34,11 +34,17 @@ __copyright__ = '2002-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.'
 # Backward compatibility
 #===============================================================================
 # Check for Python version
-if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
     PYTHON3 = False
 else:
     PYTHON3 = True
 
+# If using Python 2, ensure that at least version 2.7 is used. Older versions
+# are not supported
+if not PYTHON3 or sys.version_info[1] < 7:
+    print("Python version must be atleast 2.7. Exiting.")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 # Create string compatibility
 if not PYTHON3:
     string = unicode
-- 
2.19.1