# this resolves issues 34 and 37
changes for 2.5:

- rewriting the print() statement  (2x)
- from __future__ import with_statement (1x)
- except Exception as e -> except Exception \n e = sys.exc_info()[1] (1x)
- "....".format() -> "....." % ()   (~13x)
- subprocess.check_out -> exact code from python 2.7/subprocess (1x)