py3: Make py3 API available on py2.
Standard library was reorganized (urlparse => urllib, httplib => http...) in PEP 3108. install_aliases() from `future` egg provides module aliases so that imports work on both python2 and python3.
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Standard library was reorganized (urlparse => urllib, httplib => http...) in PEP 3108. install_aliases() from `future` egg provides module aliases so that imports work on both python2 and python3.
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for reference, we did not use this approach and used six.moves, but since future was installed we sometimes used the python3 modules directly (for example we used _thread)