Running software-sources results in Python error (LMDE 3)

Question

I am in need to run the Software Sources GUI (no, my job cannot be completed through apt or aptitude). Since the window would never load if I navigated from the launcher, I decided to see what happens if I were to run it from the command line:

jason@jason-mint:~$ software-sources 
  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py", line 48
    def async(func):
            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The function in the file mintSources.py looks like this:

# Used as a decorator to run things in the background
def async(func):
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        thread = threading.Thread(target=func, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
        thread.daemon = True
        thread.start()
        return thread
    return wrapper

At the very top, the shebang says: #!/usr/bin/python3. Since my default Python is Python 2.7, I changed the shebang to #!/usr/bin/python to see what happens, only to have a new error this time:

jason@jason-mint:/etc/apt$ software-sources 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py", line 6, in <module>
    import configparser
ImportError: No module named configparser

Which means it failes in import configparser, clearly an indication that python2.7 (my default) will not work. To clarify, I have both Python2 and Python3 available:

jason@jason-mint:~$ python --version
Python 2.7.16
jason@jason-mint:~$ python2
Python 2.7.16 (default, Apr  6 2019, 01:42:57) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit()
jason@jason-mint:~$ python3
Python 3.7.3rc1 (default, Mar 13 2019, 11:01:15) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit()
jason@jason-mint:~$ python
Python 2.7.16 (default, Apr  6 2019, 01:42:57) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Some system info if it helps:

jason@jason-mint:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
buster/sid
jason@jason-mint:~$ uname -r
4.19.0-4-amd64

Running software-sources results in Python error (LMDE 3)

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