The rules enforced are the same as those used for scipy.

Some of those problems look like potential coding errors. In those
cases a Fixme comment was made and the offending code, usually an
unused variable, was commented out.

Fix `ResourceWarning: unclosed file` on Python 3

Various functions have been moved around in the stdlib for Python 3,
this fixes that up so that the code is valid in both Python 2 and
Python 3.

Note: monkey patching the stlib urlopen for testing looks a bit hokey
to me, but I don't see an easier, more reliable way to do the test.

Closes #3090.

In Python3 `dict.items()`, `dict.keys()`, and `dict.values()` are
iterators. This causes problems when a list is needed so the 2to3 fixer
explicitly constructs a list when is finds on of those functions.
However, that is usually not necessary, so a lot of the work here has
been cleaning up those places where the fix is not needed. The big
exception to that is the `numpy/f2py/crackfortran.py` file. The code
there makes extensive use of loops that modify the contents of the
dictionary being looped through, which raises an error. That together
with the obscurity of the code in that file made it safest to let the
`dict` fixer do its worst.

Closes #3050.

Add `print_function` to all `from __future__ import ...` statements
and use the python3 print function syntax everywhere.

Closes #3078.

The `imports` fixer deals with the standard packages that have been
renamed, removed, or methods that have moved.

cPickle      -- removed, use pickle
commands     -- removed, getoutput, getstatusoutput moved to subprocess
urlparse     -- removed, urlparse moved to urllib.parse
cStringIO    -- removed, use StringIO or io.StringIO
copy_reg     -- renamed copyreg
_winreg      -- renamed winreg
ConfigParser -- renamed configparser
__builtin__  -- renamed builtins

In the case of `cPickle`, it is imported as `pickle` when python < 3 and
performance may be a consideration, but otherwise plain old `pickle` is
used.

Dealing with `StringIO` is a bit tricky. There is an `io.StringIO`
function in the `io` module, available since Python 2.6, but it expects
unicode whereas `StringIO.StringIO` expects ascii. The Python 3
equivalent is then `io.BytesIO`. What I have done here is used BytesIO
for anything that is emulating a file for testing purposes. That is more
explicit than using a redefined StringIO as was done before we dropped
support for Python 2.4 and 2.5.

Closes #3180.

The new import `absolute_import` is added the `from __future__ import`
statement and The 2to3 `import` fixer is run to make the imports
compatible. There are several things that need to be dealt with to make
this work.

1) Files meant to be run as scripts run in a different environment than
files imported as part of a package, and so changes to those files need
to be skipped. The affected script files are:

    * all setup.py files
    * numpy/core/code_generators/generate_umath.py
    * numpy/core/code_generators/generate_numpy_api.py
    * numpy/core/code_generators/generate_ufunc_api.py

2) Some imported modules are not available as they are created during
the build process and consequently 2to3 is unable to handle them
correctly. Files that import those modules need a bit of extra work.
The affected files are:

    * core/__init__.py,
    * core/numeric.py,
    * core/_internal.py,
    * core/arrayprint.py,
    * core/fromnumeric.py,
    * numpy/__init__.py,
    * lib/npyio.py,
    * lib/function_base.py,
    * fft/fftpack.py,
    * random/__init__.py

Closes #3172

This should be harmless, as we already are division clean. However,
placement of this import takes some care. In the future a script
can be used to append new features without worry, at least until
such time as it exceeds a single line. Having that ability will
make it easier to deal with absolute imports and printing updates.

I think that is the end of it.