Merge pull request #19 from lsst/tickets/DM-11667

Install python3 library aliases

python/lsstimport.py

@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@
 import importlib
 import os.path
 
+# Ensure that the Python3 package library reorganization is available
+# to Python 2. It's okay if this doesn't work, and it won't work if SCons
+# is importing this and SCons has no access to the future package.
+try:
+    from future import standard_library
+    standard_library.install_aliases()
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 # List of extensions to set global flags.  May need to be extended
 # for systems other than *nix and OSX.
 SHARED_LIB_EXTENSION_LIST = ('.so', '.dylib')