Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether “six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it would, Andrey took the side against.
Well, today I can say that I've won the bet. When the bet was placed, six was #2 in terms of daily downloads and today six is #14.
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