remove dependency on Six

[a-detiste]

https://wiki.debian.org/Python3-six-removal

[fishy]

There is an open ticket (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5537) and open PRs to drop Python 2 support, which is not done yet.

I don't think we can remove the dependency of six without removing python 2 support.

[Jens-G]

Unfortunately #2588 seems a bit rotten ... it still features endland the number of whitespace changes is as huge as the time when auto-formatting was the new hot thing 🤣 so that seems not an easy task. Any ideas how to solve that mess?

[a-detiste]

solve that mess?

Well, first declare Python2 officialy unsupported and let vultures tear it appart apiece ;-)

From what I've seen the "one mega PR" approach usualy never completes. At some point people suggests to add typign annotation ;-)

[fishy]

Well, first declare Python2 officialy unsupported and let vultures tear it appart apiece ;-)

sounds good to me :)

[fishy]

we probably should consider this PR part of THRIFT-5537 (add that to PR/commit message title)?

[jimexist]

would love to see python2 removed but don't have time or bandwidth to actually test it to make it solid.

• THRIFT-5537: Remove python2 #2588
  if anyone's interested feel free to take over