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Made dependency on future python 2 only #81

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@zeldin zeldin commented May 15, 2024

KiPart has a dependency on the "future" module. Going through the code I found that the only use of this module is two instances of calling future.standard_library.install_aliases(). This function is defined as doing nothing at all on python 3. Thus, the call is only needed on python 2 and it's simple to make it so that it is only called on python 2, making the dependency not needed on python 3.

Why is this important? Well, with python 2 having become EOL, distributions are starting to remove python 2, and also the future module (see e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/888271). Thus, requiring the module in order to install for python 3 makes packaging difficult (or at least awkward).

Note that uses of __future__ (with the underscores) are not affected by this at all, since that is a builtin "module" and guaranteed to be available in every Python installation.

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