Update to python 3.0 compliance

[jedwards4b]

End of life for python 2.7 is 2020. What needs to be done to update cime to python 3?

[jgfouca]

Python has a 2_to_3 script that should take care of most of it. It would be a matter of running the script, pylinting the result, and running our tests. Hopefully it would mostly just work.

[rljacob]

Sounds good but lets not make this a priority. 2020 is a while from now and 2.7 won't disappear over night.

[mvertens]

I agree with Rob's plan.

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[jgfouca]

Yes, and even then, 2.7 will never disappear. They just won't release any further updates to it.

[mfdeakin-sandia]

For the future, as a Python 3 evangelist, I would like to work on this