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Why is it called pdfminer.six?
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Pdfminer.six is a for of the `original pdfminer created by Euske
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Pdfminer.six is a fork of the `original pdfminer created by Euske
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<https://github.com/euske>`_. Almost all of the code and architecture is in
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fact created by Euske. But, for a long time this original pdfminer did not
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support Python 3. Untill 2020 the original pdfminer only supported Python 2.
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Pdfminer.six started as a fork of the original pdfminer with the goal of adding
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support for Python 3. This was done with the six package. The six package helps
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to write code that is compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3. Hence,
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pdfminer.six.
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support Python 3. Until 2020 the original pdfminer only supported Python 2.
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The original goal of pdfminer.six was to add support for Python 3. This was
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done with the six package. The six package helps to write code that is
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compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3. Hence, pdfminer.six.
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As of 2020, pdfminer.six dropped the support for Python 2 because it was
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`end-of-life <https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/>`_. While the .six
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