no python 2.4 support

[JensTimmerman]

I liked to use ansi2html on a system with only python 2.4 support, so I added python 2.4 support in my branch
https://github.com/JensTimmerman/ansi2html/tree/develop/ansi2html

Should I switch this to a feature branch and make a pull request?

[ralphbean]

That would be great! :) That way we can look it over and poke at it.

If you add python 2.4 to the .travis.yml file, then travis can run the test suite on all the versions of python listed there.

[JensTimmerman]

I added python 2.4 to .travis.yml
But travis doesn't seem willing to support python 2.4, so now that build is failing...

[ralphbean]

Fixed in 6fcc5ab It is available from pypi starting with release 0.9.3.

Thanks again!

[JensTimmerman]

Thank you for merging this.
However, if you are willing to keep supporting python 2.4 you'll have to take care to use the string interpolation (%) instead of format (which is a bit slower)
Use the hackish Ternary conditional operator ('False','True')[condition]

And in general you'll be a bit more limited.

I was surprised everything still worked after removing the __future__ imports...

[ralphbean]

Yeah, it looks like many of the __future__ references were artifacts from when I originally ran "python-modernize". :)