Add Python 2/3 compatibility
==== Tech Notes ====
This allows the main bus, skills and cli to be run in both python 2.7 and
3.5+.
Mainly trivial changes
- syntax for exceptions
- logic for importing correct Queue module
- .iteritems -> future.utils.iteritems when accessing dicts key value
pairs
* Allow audio service to be run in python 3
* Make speech client work with python 3
* Importing of Queue version dependent
* Exception syntax corrected
* Creating sound buffer is version dependant
- Adapt context use range from builtins
- Use compatible next() instead of .next() when walking the skill
directory
* Make CLI Python 3 Compatible
- Use compatible BytesIO instead of StringsIO
- Open files as text instead of binary
- Make sure integer divisions are used
* Make messagebus send compatible
* Fix failing travis
Re-add future 0.16.0
* Make string checks compatible
* basestring doesn't exist in python 3 so it's imported from the "past"
* Fix latest compatibility issues in speech client
- handle urllib
- handle encoding before calling md5
* Make Api.build_json() python 2/3 compatible
==== Tech Notes ====
Before the refactoring of the configuration system the
ConfigurationManager allowed loading config files directly from strings.
This commit restores that functionality
Several attempts to connect to the backend fail before pairing has
been completed, which was producing errors that prevented the
messagebus and audio services from starting up.
Now the DeviceApi().is_subscriber property returns False if the
check fails, assuming unpaired == not subscribed.
Also stopped logging the call stack on the HTTPError exception, it
made an expected situation look like a major crash.
==== Tech Notes ====
- removed old main.py
- replace reference to ConfigurationManager in api tests
- reset configuration after use in configuration test
- Pep-8 issue
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