Travis CI to allow multiple failues for various python version

Question

I have the following .travis.yml which I would expect to allow failures on python 2.6, 2.7 and nightly. For some reason it only recognises the nightly as allowed to fail, and the build fails due to 2.6 failing.

I'm guessing it might be the default and that it doesn't recognise my allow_failures section at all. travis-lint produces no errors.

Any ideas as to what goes wrong?

language: python
python:
  - "2.6"
  - "2.7"
  - "3.2"
  - "3.3"
  - "3.4"
  - "nightly"
matrix:
  allow_failures:
    - python: 2.6
    - python: 2.7
    - python: nightly
# command to install dependencies
install:
  - "python setup.py develop"
# command to run tests
script: py.test -v mandelbrot

Answer 1

It seems that the allow_failures element under the matrix elements only applies to what is defined inside the matrix - makes sense now that I see it.

Fix:

matrix:
  include:
    - python: "2.6"
    - python: "2.7"
    - python: "3.2"
    - python: "3.3"
    - python: "3.4"
    - python: "nightly"
  allow_failures:
    - python: "2.6"
    - python: "3.2"
    - python: "nightly"