Rationale:
'past.builtins' is not a part of stock python modules, as result it's difficult to run boost-python tests in limited environments (like Android) at the same time it is the one line only to fix it -
Code like
if (sys.version_info.major >= 3):
from past.builtins import long
Can be easily replaced with:
if (sys.version_info.major >= 3):
long = int