introduced in gh-4105/ab04e1ae0e8eca717bc7e42f3b0a60c9ff764289

The tests were looking at the formatting of other elements in the string
which is not relevant for the things testsed in this case. By looking
only at the array formatting, we guarantee consistency across systems.

It's silly to check scalars when their string representations will vary
so much from system to system.

assert_approx_equal & assert_almost_equal make internal use of
build_err_msg so a few tests have been added to check that the errors
are formatted correctly.

Casting y to an inexact type fixes problems such as
abs(MIN_INT) < 0, and generally makes sense since the allclose
logic is inherently for float types.

Run the 2to3 ws_comma fixer on *.py files. Some lines are now too long
and will need to be broken at some point. OTOH, some lines were already
too long and need to be broken at some point. Now seems as good a time
as any to do this with open PRs at a minimum.

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

Closes #3078.

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