I've heard lots of good things about this project, by the way: http://python-future.org/ http://python-future.org/ It's much less clunky than six. Instead of m

I've heard lots of good things about this project, by the way: http://python-future.org/ http://python-future.org/ It's much less clunky than six. Instead of manually adding the compatibility layers to your code, it automates the process, which results in cleaner code. It can even translate (some) Python 2 modules on-the-fly. Many projects switched to it from six.