Merge branch 'master' into feature/2093-docs-revampfeature/2093-docs-revamp

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/wheel.py b/setuptools/wheel.py
index ec1106a7..0be811af 100644
--- a/setuptools/wheel.py
+++ b/setuptools/wheel.py
@@ -14,25 +14,17 @@ import setuptools
 from pkg_resources import parse_version
 from setuptools.extern.packaging.tags import sys_tags
 from setuptools.extern.packaging.utils import canonicalize_name
-from setuptools.extern.six import PY3
 from setuptools.command.egg_info import write_requirements
 
 
-__metaclass__ = type
-
-
 WHEEL_NAME = re.compile(
     r"""^(?P<project_name>.+?)-(?P<version>\d.*?)
     ((-(?P<build>\d.*?))?-(?P<py_version>.+?)-(?P<abi>.+?)-(?P<platform>.+?)
     )\.whl$""",
     re.VERBOSE).match
 
-NAMESPACE_PACKAGE_INIT = '''\
-try:
-    __import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
-except ImportError:
-    __path__ = __import__('pkgutil').extend_path(__path__, __name__)
-'''
+NAMESPACE_PACKAGE_INIT = \
+    "__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)\n"
 
 
 def unpack(src_dir, dst_dir):
@@ -116,7 +108,7 @@ class Wheel:
     def _convert_metadata(zf, destination_eggdir, dist_info, egg_info):
         def get_metadata(name):
             with zf.open(posixpath.join(dist_info, name)) as fp:
-                value = fp.read().decode('utf-8') if PY3 else fp.read()
+                value = fp.read().decode('utf-8')
                 return email.parser.Parser().parsestr(value)
 
         wheel_metadata = get_metadata('WHEEL')