[CASSANDRA-16506] Drop unittest2 dependency since we no longer support python < 2.7

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/fd9250fb401db3b96aa5fe5a20ca12108b26bbb7

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• Assignee: Jeff Widman
• Reporter: Jeff Widman

Authors

Jeff Widman

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 09/Mar/21 05:37
• Updated: 15/Mar/21 17:26
• Resolved: 14/Mar/21 16:21

Description

`cqlsh` has a dependency on `unittest2`.

But `unittest2` is simply a backport of python 2.7+ features to older pythons.

Given that support for Python 2.7 is itself now deprecated in favor of Python 3 support, there's no need to include the `unittest2` import...

I opened a pull request fixing this here: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/pull/921