we use our own compat module, not six

Author: honzakral

elasticsearch/helpers/__init__.py

@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
 from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool
 from operator import methodcaller
 
-import six
-
 from ..exceptions import ElasticsearchException, TransportError
-from ..compat import map
+from ..compat import map, string_types
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('elasticsearch.helpers')
 
@@ -28,7 +26,7 @@ def expand_action(data):
  :meth:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.bulk` api.
  """
  # when given a string, assume user wants to index raw json
- if isinstance(data, six.string_types):
+ if isinstance(data, string_types):
  return '{"index": {}}', data
 
  # make sure we don't alter the action