Rip some of the six imports from the codebase

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pylint/checkers/misc.py b/pylint/checkers/misc.py
index 4f5407b10..c0f9ae83b 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/misc.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/misc.py
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
 
 import re
 
-import six
-
 from pylint.interfaces import IRawChecker
 from pylint.checkers import BaseChecker
 from pylint.utils import OPTION_RGX
@@ -111,7 +109,7 @@ class EncodingChecker(BaseChecker):
 
     def _check_encoding(self, lineno, line, file_encoding):
         try:
-            return six.text_type(line, file_encoding)
+            line.decode(file_encoding)
         except UnicodeDecodeError as ex:
             self.add_message('invalid-encoded-data', line=lineno,
                              args=(file_encoding, ex.args[2]))