Remove support for running with Python 2.7 (#33063)

* Remove CI jobs related to Python 2.7

* Remove Python 2.7 specific code from Spack core

* Remove externals for Python 2 only

* Remove llnl.util.compat

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/conf.py b/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
index 4fc321c72d..55848106de 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/conf.py
@@ -37,12 +37,6 @@ if not os.path.exists(link_name):
     os.symlink(os.path.abspath("../../.."), link_name, target_is_directory=True)
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external"))
 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external/pytest-fallback"))
-
-if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external/yaml/lib"))
-else:
-    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/external/yaml/lib3"))
-
 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("_spack_root/lib/spack/"))
 
 # Add the Spack bin directory to the path so that we can use its output in docs.
@@ -160,8 +154,8 @@ source_encoding = "utf-8-sig"
 master_doc = "index"
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u"Spack"
-copyright = u"2013-2021, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
+project = "Spack"
+copyright = "2013-2021, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -350,7 +344,7 @@ latex_elements = {
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
 latex_documents = [
-    ("index", "Spack.tex", u"Spack Documentation", u"Todd Gamblin", "manual"),
+    ("index", "Spack.tex", "Spack Documentation", "Todd Gamblin", "manual"),
 ]
 
 # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
@@ -378,7 +372,7 @@ latex_documents = [
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
-man_pages = [("index", "spack", u"Spack Documentation", [u"Todd Gamblin"], 1)]
+man_pages = [("index", "spack", "Spack Documentation", ["Todd Gamblin"], 1)]
 
 # If true, show URL addresses after external links.
 # man_show_urls = False
@@ -393,8 +387,8 @@ texinfo_documents = [
     (
         "index",
         "Spack",
-        u"Spack Documentation",
-        u"Todd Gamblin",
+        "Spack Documentation",
+        "Todd Gamblin",
         "Spack",
         "One line description of project.",
         "Miscellaneous",