Lower min version of six to 1.9 (#1606)

This change should allow installation of virtualenv on systems
with older six where their LTS support may prevent them from
upgrading it.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/virtualenv/activation/python/__init__.py b/src/virtualenv/activation/python/__init__.py
index 1376243..8736791 100644
--- a/src/virtualenv/activation/python/__init__.py
+++ b/src/virtualenv/activation/python/__init__.py
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, unicode_literals
 import os
 from collections import OrderedDict
 
-import six
-
 from virtualenv.info import WIN_CPYTHON_2
 from virtualenv.util.path import Path
+from virtualenv.util.six import ensure_text
 
 from ..via_template import ViaTemplateActivator
 
@@ -20,7 +19,7 @@ class PythonActivator(ViaTemplateActivator):
         lib_folders = OrderedDict((os.path.relpath(str(i), str(dest_folder)), None) for i in creator.libs)
         replacements.update(
             {
-                "__LIB_FOLDERS__": six.ensure_text(os.pathsep.join(lib_folders.keys())),
+                "__LIB_FOLDERS__": ensure_text(os.pathsep.join(lib_folders.keys())),
                 "__DECODE_PATH__": ("yes" if WIN_CPYTHON_2 else ""),
             }
         )
@@ -30,5 +29,5 @@ class PythonActivator(ViaTemplateActivator):
     def _repr_unicode(creator, value):
         py2 = creator.interpreter.version_info.major == 2
         if py2:  # on Python 2 we need to encode this into explicit utf-8, py3 supports unicode literals
-            value = six.ensure_text(repr(value.encode("utf-8"))[1:-1])
+            value = ensure_text(repr(value.encode("utf-8"))[1:-1])
         return value