removed several pre-2.7 methods and imports, including some basic refactorings

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/QMTest/TestCommon.py b/QMTest/TestCommon.py
index c4a5373..dc4c97c 100644
--- a/QMTest/TestCommon.py
+++ b/QMTest/TestCommon.py
@@ -123,31 +123,6 @@ __all__.extend([ 'TestCommon',
                  'dll_suffix',
                ])
 
-try:
-    sorted
-except NameError:
-    # Pre-2.4 Python has no sorted() function.
-    #
-    # The pre-2.4 Python list.sort() method does not support
-    # list.sort(key=) nor list.sort(reverse=) keyword arguments, so
-    # we must implement the functionality of those keyword arguments
-    # by hand instead of passing them to list.sort().
-    def sorted(iterable, cmp=None, key=None, reverse=False):
-        if key is not None:
-            result = [(key(x), x) for x in iterable]
-        else:
-            result = iterable[:]
-        if cmp is None:
-            # Pre-2.3 Python does not support list.sort(None).
-            result.sort()
-        else:
-            result.sort(cmp)
-        if key is not None:
-            result = [t1 for t0,t1 in result]
-        if reverse:
-            result.reverse()
-        return result
-
 # Variables that describe the prefixes and suffixes on this system.
 if sys.platform == 'win32':
     exe_suffix   = '.exe'