move imports from functions to the top of the file (#11396)
* move imports from functions to the top of the file
* add changelog frag
* Apply suggestions from code review
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(cherry picked from commit c8356981bb)
Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Fontein <felix@fontein.de>
* Get rid of all six.moves imports.
* Get rid of iteritems.
* Get rid of *_type(s) aliases.
* Replace StringIO import.
* Get rid of PY2/PY3 constants.
* Get rid of raise_from.
* Get rid of python_2_unicode_compatible.
* Clean up global six imports.
* Remove all usage of ansible.module_utils.six.
* Linting.
* Fix xml module.
* Docs adjustments.
* Adjust all __future__ imports:
for i in $(grep -REl "__future__.*absolute_import" plugins/ tests/); do
sed -e 's/from __future__ import .*/from __future__ import annotations/g' -i $i;
done
* Remove all UTF-8 encoding specifications for Python source files:
for i in $(grep -REl '[-][*]- coding: utf-8 -[*]-' plugins/ tests/); do
sed -e '/^# -\*- coding: utf-8 -\*-/d' -i $i;
done
* Remove __metaclass__ = type:
for i in $(grep -REl '__metaclass__ = type' plugins/ tests/); do
sed -e '/^__metaclass__ = type/d' -i $i;
done
