removed the import new in favor of import types for all versions.

Thomas A Caswell · Thomas A Caswell · commit c71084d1d677 · 2013-01-03T23:08:11.000-06:00
types is supported from 2.2 and new is deprecated as of 2.6.

This is the only place `import new` appears in the code.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/cbook.py b/lib/matplotlib/cbook.py
@@ -28,10 +28,9 @@
 import numpy.ma as ma
 
 
-if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-    import types
-else:
-    import new
+
+import types
+
 
 # On some systems, locale.getpreferredencoding returns None,
 # which can break unicode; and the sage project reports that
@@ -209,10 +208,9 @@ def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         elif self.inst is not None:
             # build a new instance method with a strong reference to the
             # instance
-            if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
-                mtd = types.MethodType(self.func, self.inst())
-            else:
-                mtd = new.instancemethod(self.func, self.inst(), self.klass)
+
+            mtd = types.MethodType(self.func, self.inst())
+
         else:
             # not a bound method, just return the func
             mtd = self.func
