Merge branch 'master' into fix-vecmat-win-failure

Author: vtavana

tests_external/numpy/runtests.py

@@ -291,9 +291,6 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
 dpnp.unicode = str
 dpnp.unicode_ = dpnp.str_
 
-dpnp.compat = dummymodule
-dpnp.compat.unicode = dpnp.unicode
-
 dpnp.core = dpnp.core.umath = dpnp
 
 dpnp.core._exceptions = dummymodule