Closes #166: Remove six and _internal/compat.py

setup.cfg

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ install_requires =
     lxml
     pytz
     requests
-    six
 setup_requires =
     pytest-runner
     setuptools_scm

src/eutils/_internal/queryservice.py

@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@
 import hashlib
 import logging
 import os
+import pickle
 import time
 
 import lxml.etree
 import requests
 
 from .sqlitecache import SQLiteCache
 from .exceptions import EutilsRequestError, EutilsNCBIError
-from .compat import pickle
 
 
 _logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

src/eutils/_internal/sqlitecache.py

@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@
 
 import logging
 import os
+import pickle
 import sqlite3
 import zlib
 
-from .compat import pickle
-
 
 def key_to(obj):
     return pickle.dumps(obj)

tests/test_eutils_queryservice.py

@@ -12,16 +12,14 @@
 from lxml import etree
 from mock import patch, MagicMock
 import pytest
-import six
 import vcr
 
 from eutils._internal.queryservice import QueryService
 from eutils._internal.exceptions import EutilsNCBIError, EutilsRequestError
 
 
 def assert_in_xml(xml, item):
-    if six.PY3 and isinstance(xml, six.binary_type):
-        xml = xml.decode()
+    xml = xml.decode()
     assert item in xml