Remove support for Python 2
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I will go through every .py file in the mpirical folder and within the tests folder to identify places where the code caters to Python 2.
@kmpaul I remember you mentioning a specific package used for version control in mpirical. What was that called?
I think you are thinking of versioneer. The versioneer utility installed the versioneer.py file in the top-level directory, and it adds the mpirical/_version.py file and modifies the mpirical/__init__.py file. And there is a [versioneer] section in setup.cfg that configures how versioneer works.
Basically, the versioneer utility uses Git to look up the latest git tag and uses the git tag name as the version string in the code. So, you don't have to worry about setting the version string in multiple places in your code; versioneer sets it for you.
If we switch to setuptools_scm, like @andersy005 recommends in #16, then we would remove the versioneer.py file and the mpirical/_version.py file and then we'd need to modify the rest of the code to use setuptools_scm.
Ah okay. This is why I thought this issue and #16 were related.
I can keep looking through the code, so I can be more efficient/prepared to help with the switch to setuptools_scm.
Couldn't find anything Python2 specific.