Recognize and replace if sys.version_info[0] blocks

[EwoutH]

pyupgrade currently does detect the if sys.version_info < (3, 5): syntax, it doesn't recognize the lesser but still sometimes used if sys.version_info[0] < 3: syntax in if or if-else blocks. It would be a nice feature if pyupgrade also could recognize and automatically replace such blocks.

A few examples I encountered in the wild:

if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    import shutil
    shutil.rmtree(cls._tmpdir)
else:
    cls._tmpdir.cleanup()

if (sys.version_info[0] >=3 and
        isinstance(node, StringNode) and
        node.unicode_value is not None):
    return (node.unicode_value, node.pos)
return (node.compile_time_value(empty_scope), node.pos)

if sys.version_info[0] != 2:
    self.assertTrue(StringEncoding.string_contains_lone_surrogates("\uD800\uDFFF"))

[asottile]

I've never seen someone write that

[EwoutH]

For some reason Cython is full of it: cython/cython#5828/files (don't ask me why)

[hugovk]

There's a lot of it out there: tensorflow, protobuf, opencv, pytorch...

• https://github.com/search?q=sys.version_info%5B0%5D&ref=opensearch&type=code
• https://grep.app/search?q=sys.version_info%5B0%5D

And it's in the CPython 2-to-3 porting guide:

• https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html