pip: Python 2.6 get-pip.py Installer Failing with Brownouts

• Pip version: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.6/get-pip.py
• Python version: 2.6
• Operating system: macOS 10.12

Description:

I am trying to bootstrap pip 9 with Python 2.6.

I realize that Python 2.6 is not supported in pip 10. I know that Python 2.6 will be orphaned on pip 9. I just want to install pip 9.0.3.

What I’ve run:

https://bootstrap.pypa.io/2.6/get-pip.py

Output:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pip<10 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pip<10

My understanding was that pip 9.0.3 included a SecureTransport backend for urllib3 that should allow TLS 1.2 to be supported. The get-pip.py script for Python 2.6 references that it is 9.0.3.