From 36a05983b40b45a55ba0b5345a1e387dd8cb1162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nate Prewitt <nate.prewitt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 14:56:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning for direct usage of six from awscli.compat

---
 awscli/compat.py | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/awscli/compat.py b/awscli/compat.py
index 1881c0c7ebe2..0b77eafa6679 100644
--- a/awscli/compat.py
+++ b/awscli/compat.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from urllib.error import URLError
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
-from botocore.compat import six, OrderedDict
+from botocore.compat import OrderedDict
 
 import sys
 import zipfile
@@ -502,3 +502,20 @@ def _linux_distribution(
         if _id:
             id = _id
         return distname, version, id
+
+
+def __getattr__(name):
+    """
+    Module override to raise warnings when deprecated libraries
+    are imported in external code.
+    """
+    if name == "six":
+        warnstr = (
+            "The awscli.compat.six module is deprecated and will be removed "
+            "in a future version. Please use six as a direct dependency."
+        )
+        warnings.warn(warnstr, DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+        from botocore.compat import six
+        return six
+
+    raise AttributeError(f"Module {__name__} has no attribute {name}.")