python: Remove Python bindings

* README: Update.
* configure.ac: Remove checks, variables and file generations related to
the Python bindings. Remove python from available_languages and
default_languages.
* lang/Makefile.am (DIST_SUBDIRS): Remove python.
* lang/python: Remove.
* m4/ax_pkg_swig.m4, m4/ax_python_devel.m4, m4/python.m4: Remove.
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The Python bindings have been moved to a separate Git repository:
gpgmepy.

GnuPG-bug-id: 7262

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 57 deletions

diff --git a/lang/python/src/util.py b/lang/python/src/util.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 320a823e..00000000
--- a/lang/python/src/util.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2016 g10 Code GmbH
-# Copyright (C) 2004,2008 Igor Belyi <[email protected]>
-# Copyright (C) 2002 John Goerzen <[email protected]>
-#
-#    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-#    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
-#    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
-#    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-#    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-#    Lesser General Public License for more details.
-#
-#    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
-#    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
-#    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA
-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
-
-import sys
-
-del absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
-
-
-def process_constants(prefix, scope):
-    """Called by the constant modules to load up the constants from the C
-    library starting with PREFIX.  Matching constants will be inserted
-    into SCOPE with PREFIX stripped from the names.  Returns the names
-    of inserted constants.
-
-    """
-    from . import gpgme
-    index = len(prefix)
-    constants = {
-        identifier[index:]: getattr(gpgme, identifier)
-        for identifier in dir(gpgme) if identifier.startswith(prefix)
-    }
-    scope.update(constants)
-    return list(constants.keys())
-
-
-def percent_escape(s):
-    return ''.join('%{0:2x}'.format(ord(c))
-                   if c == '+' or c == '"' or c == '%' or ord(c) <= 0x20 else c
-                   for c in s)
-
-
-# Python2/3 compatibility
-if sys.version_info[0] == 3:
-    # Python3
-    def is_a_string(x):
-        return isinstance(x, str)
-else:
-    # Python2
-    def is_a_string(x):
-        return isinstance(x, basestring)