Add an exception for python < 3.6.2add-warning-for-3.6.0or3.6.1

See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5065 for reasoning

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 606849326..20c0f86af 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+import sys
+
 from setuptools import setup
 
+
+class PylintIncompatiblePythonError(Exception):
+    def __init__(self, major, minor, patch):
+        super().__init__(
+            f"The last version compatible with python <= 3.6.2 is pylint '2.9.3'."
+            f"You're using {major}.{minor}.{patch}. "
+            "Please install pylint 2.9.3 explicitly or upgrade your python interpreter "
+            "to at least 3.6.2. Remember that python 3.6 end life is December 2021."
+            "See https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/5065 for more detail."
+        )
+
+
+version = sys.version_info[:3]
+if version < (3, 6, 2):
+    raise PylintIncompatiblePythonError(*version)
+
 setup()