Allows removing many duplicate imports and better follows PEP8
guidelines:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
> Imports are always put at the top of the file, just after any module
> comments and docstrings, and before module globals and constants.
The tests relied on Python2 relative import semantics. Python3 changed
import semantics to always search sys.path by default. To import using a
relative path it must have a leading dot.
Forward compatible with newer Pythons.
Works towards the goal of moving tests outside of the installed package.
For more information, see PEP-328:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/
It's not so much about tests being slow: some just get stuck and timeout
travis.
Skipped all tests taking about more than 0.2s to run on my laptop.
Fast testing takes about 8s instead of 24.
Unfortunately PQcancel blocks, so it's not better than PQgetResult.
It has been suggested to use PQreset in non-blocking way but this would give
the Python program the burden of handling a connection done but not configured
in an unexpected place.
Dropped cyclic import from modules to tests: they were only working
because a second copy of the package was found in the project dir.
Use relative import so that 2to3 can do a good conversion.
