Inheriting from object was necessary for Python 2 compatibility to use
new-style classes. In Python 3, this is unnecessary as there are no
old-style classes.

Dropping the object is more idiomatic Python.

As numpy is Python 3 only, these import statements are now unnecessary
and don't alter runtime behavior.

Pytest < 3.8 ignored warnings issued during test collection, but that
changed in pytest 3.8 and the method NumPy used to suppress the
PendingDeprecationWarning for matrices no longer worked, or rather, was
exposed as not working. The fix here is to suppress the warning in
pytest.ini and pytesttester.py , which should work as long as the tests
are the only places left where NumPy uses matrices.

An alternate fix is to delay the construction of matrices in the tests
until they are actually run, which has the virtue of test localization
but is a bit more complicated.

See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3945 for discussion.