SF patch# 1770008 by Christian Heimes (plus some extras).
Completely get rid of StringIO.py and cStringIO.c.

I had to fix a few tests and modules beyond what Christian did, and
invent a few conventions.  E.g. in elementtree, I chose to
write/return Unicode strings whe no encoding is given, but bytes when
an explicit encoding is given.  Also mimetools was made to always
assume binary files.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py b/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
index dedce4a..a008fd0 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_zipfile64.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 import time
 import sys
 
-from StringIO import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 from tempfile import TemporaryFile
 
 from test.test_support import TESTFN, run_unittest