How to install the Six module in Python2 7

Question

I am using Python 2 7 and trying to use dateutil as follows   from dateutil import parser as  date parser   However  I get the following error   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 17 gt    line 1  in  lt module gt      from dateutil import parser as  date parser   File  C  Python27 Lib dateutil parser py   line 24  in  lt module gt      from six import text type  binary type  integer types ImportError  No module named six   Could you please let me know what is the six module for and how to get it installed in a Windows 7 machine

User · Accepted Answer

You need to install this  https   pypi python org pypi six  If you still don t know what pip is   then please also google for pip install  Python has it s own package manager which is supposed to help you finding packages and  their dependencies  http   www pip-installer org en latest

User · Answer

I had the same question for macOS    But the root cause was not installing Six   My macOS shipped Python version 2 7 was being usurped by a Python2 version I inherited by installing a package via brew   I fixed my issue with     brew uninstall python 2  Some context on here   https   bugs swift org browse SR-1061

User · Answer

here s what six is   pip search six six                       - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities   to install   pip install six   though if you did install python-dateutil from pip six should have been set as a dependency   N B   to install pip run easy install pip from command line

[python] How to install the Six module in Python2.7

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