Merge tag '2.5.5' into develop

2.5.5
Improve syntaxt to more closely match pep8 standard, in particular docstrings
Add license badge
Merge pull request #14 from timothycrosley/feature/license-badge

Add license badge
Manually determine instance type if not provided by abc in installed python version
Merge pull request #17 from timothycrosley/feature/fix-issue-16

Manually determine instance type if not provided by abc in installed pyt...
Set default encoding to utf8
Bump version to 2.6.0
Merge branch 'release/2.6.0'