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Python 2 and 3 compatibility library

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2020-01-13 · latest 2025-09-08

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  1. …is 813 lines [0]. Not saying everyone should use it but these two are not directly comparable. [0] https://github.com/benjaminp/six/blob/main/six.py
    comment by nromiun · 2025-09-08 · in NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
  2. …2012.[2] And there were features you could use in 2008 to make the eventual conversion easier. [1] https://github.com/benjaminp/six/commits/1.0.0 [2] https://python3wos.appspot.com/
    comment by pseudalopex · 2021-01-24 · in Pip has dropped support for Python 2
  3. Six was available for years (2011) before Mercurial even started porting (2015). https://github.com/benjaminp/six/graphs/contributors
    comment by j88439h84 · 2020-01-13 · in Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3