CLN: cleanup libs cimports, remove is_timestamp
State: closed

- cleanup imports in `_libs.parsers`, including some unused
- a couple of functions from util are used exactly once and only in parsers.  Get those directly from numpy_helper instead of from util
- remove unused `util.is_contiguous`
- remove a bunch of distutils shebang-like declarations that are unnecessary and are a pain for when we _do_ want to run tests with coverage enabled.
- remove `tslib.is_timestamp` (will be helpful for eventual goal of "fixing" Timestamp classmethods)
- remove some leftover constants from tslib, update imports appropriately

Labels:
name: Datetime
description: Datetime data dtype
name: IO CSV
description: read_csv, to_csv
name: Clean

Comments:
rebase and something failing
Huh the appveyor error is at build-time complaining "unresolved external symbol strcasecmp".  But that particular cimport isn't changed.
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| [Impacted Files](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18663?src=pr&el=tree) | Coverage Δ | |
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| [pandas/core/frame.py](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18663/diff?src=pr&el=tree#diff-cGFuZGFzL2NvcmUvZnJhbWUucHk=) | `97.81% <0%> (-0.1%)` | :arrow_down: |
| [pandas/util/testing.py](https://codecov.io/gh/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/18663/diff?src=pr&el=tree#diff-cGFuZGFzL3V0aWwvdGVzdGluZy5weQ==) | `82.01% <0%> (+0.19%)` | :arrow_up: |

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thanks!