DEP: Remove python 2-specific code

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/core/numerictypes.py b/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
index 93af5c95d..467e2ed23 100644
--- a/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
+++ b/numpy/core/numerictypes.py
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ Exported symbols include:
      \\-> object_ (not used much)               (kind=O)
 
 """
-import types as _types
 import numbers
 import warnings
 
@@ -512,14 +511,7 @@ cast = _typedict()
 for key in _concrete_types:
     cast[key] = lambda x, k=key: array(x, copy=False).astype(k)
 
-try:
-    ScalarType = [_types.IntType, _types.FloatType, _types.ComplexType,
-                  _types.LongType, _types.BooleanType,
-                   _types.StringType, _types.UnicodeType, _types.BufferType]
-except AttributeError:
-    # Py3K
-    ScalarType = [int, float, complex, int, bool, bytes, str, memoryview]
-
+ScalarType = [int, float, complex, int, bool, bytes, str, memoryview]
 ScalarType.extend(_concrete_types)
 ScalarType = tuple(ScalarType)