From ae6e080bd9a25d46042a591300f63f1bac2b4e92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Omans <thomas.omans@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:15:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Pip module: fixing issue with python 2.4 support

Python 2.4.3 returns:
TypeError: expected character buffer object

startswith is expecting only a string instead of a tuple like newer versions allow.
---
 packaging/pip | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packaging/pip b/packaging/pip
index 45fc823cbc3..2b03a73207b 100644
--- a/packaging/pip
+++ b/packaging/pip
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def main():
                 # Ok, we will reconstruct the option string
                 extra_args = ' '.join(args_list)
 
-        if name.startswith(('.','/')):
+        if name.startswith('.') or name.startswith('/'):
             is_local_path = True
         # for tarball or vcs source, applying --use-mirrors doesn't really make sense
         is_package = is_vcs or is_tar or is_local_path       # just a shortcut for bool