Bundle a new version of python-six for compatibility along with some code to make it easy for distributions to override the bunndled copy if they have a new enough version.

hacking/update_bundled.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python2 -tt
+
+import glob
+import json
+import os.path
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
+
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import open_url
+
+basedir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(basedir, '../lib/ansible/compat/*/__init__.py')):
+    if 'compat/tests' in filename:
+        # compat/tests doesn't bundle any code
+        continue
+
+    filename = os.path.normpath(filename)
+    with open(filename, 'r') as module:
+        for line in module:
+            if line.strip().startswith('_BUNDLED_METADATA'):
+                data = line[line.index('{'):].strip()
+                break
+        else:
+            print('WARNING: {0} contained no metadata.  Could not check for updates'.format(filename))
+            continue
+        metadata = json.loads(data)
+        pypi_fh = open_url('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{0}/json'.format(metadata['pypi_name']))
+        pypi_data = json.loads(pypi_fh.read())
+        if LooseVersion(metadata['version']) < LooseVersion(pypi_data['info']['version']):
+            print('UPDATE: {0} from {1} to {2} {3}'.format(
+                metadata['pypi_name'],
+                metadata['version'],
+                pypi_data['info']['version'],
+                'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/{0}/'.format(metadata['pypi_name'])))