Six is a Python 2 and 3 compatibility library. It provides utility functions for smoothing over the differences between the Python versions with the goal of writing Python code that is compatible on both Python versions.
Questions tagged [six-python]
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Python Metaclass : Understanding the 'with_metaclass()'
I want to ask what the with_metaclass() call means in the definition of a class.
E.g.:
class Foo(with_metaclass(Cls1, Cls2)):
Is it a special case where a class inherits from a metaclass?
Is the new class a metaclass, too?
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How can I call super() so it's compatible in 2 and 3?
I'm trying to write 2/3 compatible code using six, but I don't see how I can call super() in a cross-compatible manner. Is there some better way besides, for example:
class MyClass(MyBase):
def __init__():
if six.PY3:
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unicode_literals and type()
I'm having problems supporting python2 and python3 on a type() call. This demonstrates the problem:
from __future__ import unicode_literals
name='FooClass'
type(name, (dict,), {})
No problem on python3, but on python2:
Traceback (most recent call…
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Can't find "six", but it's installed
I have six installed (even reinstalled it).
$ pip show six
---
Name: six
Version: 1.7.3
Location: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
Requires:
But when I try to run csvcut, it can't find it.
$ csvcut -n monster.csv
Traceback (most recent call…
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Python Error: "ImportError: No module named six"
I am running Python 2.7 on a Windows 7 OS
Here is what I run:
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Then I get this:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
File…
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No module named six
After installing transifex and ./manage.py the following error shows up:
Error: No modules named six.
Python Six is installed in the virtualenv (from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six)
Django Version is 1.4
Any help would be great!
thx & best…
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How do I use six?
I was using python-future for a while until profiling revealed that my program's 50 million instantiations of newint was increasing the runtime of my program 10-fold. I have the thing running fine in Python 3, but trying to make it compatible with…
Nick T
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Reraising an exception in Cython on Python 2 and Python3
I have some Cython code that currently looks
exc = sys.exc_info()
raise exc[0], exc[1], exc[2]
This doesn't work on Python3, since the "raise from tuple" form is no longer allowed. Were this normal Python code, I would just use six.reraise, but…
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Cannot import name six Django-CMS
Am Using django 1.3 and django-cms 2.2 and when i run i get an error as follows:
django.template.base.TemplateSyntaxError: 'cms_tags' is not a valid tag library: ImportError raised loading cms.templatetags.cms_tags: cannot import name six
user2842009
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transifex Error cannot import name six
I download and install the transifex with several steps but I always get Error cannot import name six:
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get install gcc make
install python python-setuptools python-imaging
easy_install transifex
easy_install…
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Django and the Python six compatibility module
Recently I was working on my Django web app, when I discovered that for some reason Django only worked when I used a python 2.x. Interpreter, but all the while I had thought it had been configured for Python 3 and thus was coding like so.
So I…
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py2exe cannot import from six.py
I'm trying use py2exe on a program that imports urlparse from six.moves.urllib_parse. Here is the program:
# hello.py
from six.moves.urllib_parse import urlparse
print('hello world')
And here is my setup.py:
from distutils.core import setup
import…
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control stdin and stdout of a ruby program in python
First I should notice: I'm a python programmer with no knowledge about ruby!
Now, I need to feed stdin of a ruby program and capture stdout of the script with
a python program.
I tried this (forth solution) and the code works in python2.7 but not in…
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