diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
index bc2f6416..49ba7901 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        python-version: [2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7]
+        python-version: [3.6, 3.7]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v1
@@ -21,13 +21,6 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install -r requirements.txt
-    - name: Lint with flake8
-      run: |
-        pip install flake8
-        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
-        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
     - name: Test with pytest
       run: |
         pip install pytest