str(c.version) for c in all_candidates SyntaxError: invalid syntax

pip --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pip", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pip==10.0.0b2', 'console_scripts', 'pip')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 299, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2229, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1948, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip-10.0.0b2-py2.6.egg/pip/_internal/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
    from pip._internal import cmdoptions
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip-10.0.0b2-py2.6.egg/pip/_internal/cmdoptions.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pip._internal.index import (
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip-10.0.0b2-py2.6.egg/pip/_internal/index.py", line 526
    {str(c.version) for c in all_candidates},
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

the reason here is pip10 not supported python2.6.

just install python2.7