These messages were perhaps originally intended as a debuggin aid but now add clutter to the output panes. Remaining messges are mostly the result of methods to display attributes of an object (which one could call from the Python console) or actually provide some information which would not be obvious from the circumstances
In Python 3 `super()` can be used without an argument
in order to get the parent class, `super()`.
In Python 2 the present class must be used as an argument,
`super(ThisClass, self)`.
This commit is done to support Python 2,
as without it all Gui Command tools will be broken
and will fail to launch, even if the unit tests pass.
Also, set the `__metaclass__` variable to `type`.
This is done to turn all classes into "new style" classes
in Python 2. This is required so `super()` works correctly
in this version of Pyton.
This commit can be reverted once Python 2 support
is completely dropped, and only Python 3 compatible code
is used.
