1 Six is a Python 2 and 3 compatibility library. It provides utility functions 2 for smoothing over the differences between the Python versions with the goal of 3 writing Python code that is compatible on both Python versions. See the 4 documentation for more information on what is provided. 5 6 Six supports every Python version since 2.6. It is contained in only one Python 7 file, so it can be easily copied into your project. (The copyright and license 8 notice must be retained.) 9 10 Online documentation is at https://pythonhosted.org/six/. 11 12 Bugs can be reported to https://bitbucket.org/gutworth/six. The code can also 13 be found there. 14 15 For questions about six or porting in general, email the python-porting mailing 16 list: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting 17
