strip_comments() currently ignores comments on lines 1 and 2, in order
to preserve lines such as
The comments test had normal comments on those lines, hence it was
failing.
Full output of failed test
```
ERROR: test_okay (__main__.FakeSshTest)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tests/ssh_test.py", line 16, in test_okay
ssh_path=testlib.data_path('fakessh.py'),
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/master.py", line 650, in ssh
return self.connect('ssh', **kwargs)
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/parent.py", line 463, in connect
return self._connect(context_id, klass, name=name, **kwargs)
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/parent.py", line 449, in _connect
stream.connect()
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/ssh.py", line 104, in connect
super(Stream, self).connect()
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/parent.py", line 395, in connect
self._connect_bootstrap()
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/ssh.py", line 116, in
_connect_bootstrap
time.time() + 10.0):
File "/home/alex/src/mitogen/mitogen/parent.py", line 207, in
iter_read
(''.join(bits)[-300:],)
mitogen.core.StreamError: EOF on stream; last 300 bytes received:
'Usage: fakessh.py [options]\n\nfakessh.py: error: no such option: -o\n'
```
Although these are synonyms in Python 2.x, when using MyPy to typecheck
code use of file() causes spurious errors.
This commit also serves as one small step to Python 3.x compatibility,
since 3.x removes the file() builtin.
Alex Willmer