diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e138e04..1a28d29 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 language: python
 python:
-  - 2.6
   - 2.7
   - 3.3
   - 3.4
   - 3.5
+  - nightly
   # - pypy Disabled for pypy < 2.6.0
 
 install:
diff --git a/docs/installing.rst b/docs/installing.rst
index 83c2325..0593513 100644
--- a/docs/installing.rst
+++ b/docs/installing.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Installing
 ==========
 
-pygal is available for python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and pypy.
+pygal is available for python 2.7 and 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and pypy.
 
 
 PyPI
diff --git a/pygal/_compat.py b/pygal/_compat.py
index 9e76b6a..b67ab15 100644
--- a/pygal/_compat.py
+++ b/pygal/_compat.py
@@ -69,15 +69,6 @@ def u(s):
         return s.decode('utf-8')
     return s
 
-
-def total_seconds(td):
-    """Backport of `timedelta.total_second` function for python 2.6"""
-    if sys.version_info[:2] == (2, 6):
-        return (
-            (td.days * 86400 + td.seconds) * 10 ** 6 + td.microseconds
-        ) / 10 ** 6
-    return td.total_seconds()
-
 try:
     from datetime import timezone
     utc = timezone.utc
@@ -103,7 +94,7 @@ def timestamp(x):
     if hasattr(x, 'timestamp'):
         return x.timestamp()
     else:
-        return total_seconds(x - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc))
+        return (x - datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=utc)).total_seconds()
 
 try:
     from urllib import quote_plus
diff --git a/pygal/graph/map.py b/pygal/graph/map.py
index 22e66d9..1a1405a 100644
--- a/pygal/graph/map.py
+++ b/pygal/graph/map.py
@@ -82,14 +82,10 @@ class BaseMap(Graph):
                 else:
                     ratio = .3 + .7 * (value - min_) / (max_ - min_)
 
-                try:
-                    areae = map.findall(
-                        ".//*[@class='%s%s %s map-element']" % (
-                            self.area_prefix, area_code,
-                            self.kind))
-                except SyntaxError:
-                    # Python 2.6 (you'd better install lxml)
-                    raise ImportError('lxml is required under python 2.6')
+                areae = map.findall(
+                    ".//*[@class='%s%s %s map-element']" % (
+                        self.area_prefix, area_code,
+                        self.kind))
 
                 if not areae:
                     continue
diff --git a/pygal/graph/time.py b/pygal/graph/time.py
index 941b810..10b6ee9 100644
--- a/pygal/graph/time.py
+++ b/pygal/graph/time.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ into float for xy plot and back to their type for display
 
 from datetime import date, datetime, time, timedelta
 
-from pygal._compat import is_str, timestamp, total_seconds
+from pygal._compat import is_str, timestamp
 from pygal.adapters import positive
 from pygal.graph.xy import XY
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def time_to_datetime(x):
 def timedelta_to_seconds(x):
     """Convert a timedelta into an amount of seconds"""
     if isinstance(x, timedelta):
-        return total_seconds(x)
+        return x.total_seconds()
     return x
 
 
diff --git a/pygal/test/conftest.py b/pygal/test/conftest.py
index e6f08f4..66d22eb 100644
--- a/pygal/test/conftest.py
+++ b/pygal/test/conftest.py
@@ -37,14 +37,11 @@ def etreefx(request):
 
 def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
     """Generate the tests for etree and lxml"""
-    if etree._lxml_etree and sys.version_info[:2] != (2, 6):
+    if etree._lxml_etree:
         metafunc.fixturenames.append('etreefx')
         metafunc.parametrize('etreefx', ['lxml', 'etree'], indirect=True)
 
-    if sys.version_info[:2] != (2, 6) and not hasattr(
-            sys, 'pypy_version_info'):
-        if not etree._lxml_etree:
-            raise ImportError('lxml is required under python 2.6')
+    if not hasattr(sys, 'pypy_version_info'):
         etree.to_lxml()
 
     if hasattr(sys, 'pypy_version_info'):