Prepare 5.0.0 (#1123)

* Bump version to 5.0.0-a1.

* Drop support for ansible-core 2.15 and 2.16.

* Remove Python 2 and early Python 3 compatibility.

plugins/module_utils/_api/credentials/utils.py

@@ -7,18 +7,11 @@
 # It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license (see LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt in this collection)
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
-__metaclass__ = type
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 import os
-import sys
 
-from ansible_collections.community.docker.plugins.module_utils._six import PY2
-
-if PY2:
-    from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
-else:
-    from shutil import which
+from shutil import which
 
 
 def find_executable(executable, path=None):
@@ -26,31 +19,10 @@ def find_executable(executable, path=None):
     As distutils.spawn.find_executable, but on Windows, look up
     every extension declared in PATHEXT instead of just `.exe`
     """
-    if not PY2:
-        # shutil.which() already uses PATHEXT on Windows, so on
-        # Python 3 we can simply use shutil.which() in all cases.
-        # (https://github.com/docker/docker-py/commit/42789818bed5d86b487a030e2e60b02bf0cfa284)
-        return which(executable, path=path)
-
-    if sys.platform != 'win32':
-        return which(executable, path)
-
-    if path is None:
-        path = os.environ['PATH']
-
-    paths = path.split(os.pathsep)
-    extensions = os.environ.get('PATHEXT', '.exe').split(os.pathsep)
-    base, ext = os.path.splitext(executable)
-
-    if not os.path.isfile(executable):
-        for p in paths:
-            for ext in extensions:
-                f = os.path.join(p, base + ext)
-                if os.path.isfile(f):
-                    return f
-        return None
-    else:
-        return executable
+    # shutil.which() already uses PATHEXT on Windows, so on
+    # Python 3 we can simply use shutil.which() in all cases.
+    # (https://github.com/docker/docker-py/commit/42789818bed5d86b487a030e2e60b02bf0cfa284)
+    return which(executable, path=path)
 
 
 def create_environment_dict(overrides):