diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index b07910e..19eee94 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,5 @@ coverage
 flake8
 pytest
 pytest-cov
-six>=1.4.0
 PyYAML
 mock; python_version < '3.3'
diff --git a/test/test_functional.py b/test/test_functional.py
index a930dc3..6d34bd1 100644
--- a/test/test_functional.py
+++ b/test/test_functional.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import os
 import json
+import sys
 from sys import modules
 import pytest
-import six
 
 try:
     from unittest import mock
@@ -444,35 +444,35 @@ class Mytest(object):
     assert getattr(getattr(ddt_mytest, 'second_test_3'), '__doc__') is None
 
 
-def test_ddt_data_unicode():
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info.major > 2, reason='Python2 only test')
+def test_ddt_data_unicode_py2():
     """
     Test that unicode strings are converted to function names correctly
     """
-    # We test unicode support separately for python 2 and 3
-
-    if six.PY2:
-
-        @ddt
-        class Mytest(object):
-            @data(u'ascii', u'non-ascii-\N{SNOWMAN}', {u'\N{SNOWMAN}': 'data'})
-            def test_hello(self, val):
-                pass
+    @ddt
+    class Mytest(object):
+        @data(u'ascii', u'non-ascii-\N{SNOWMAN}', {u'\N{SNOWMAN}': 'data'})
+        def test_hello(self, val):
+            pass
 
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_1_ascii') is not None
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_2_non_ascii__u2603') is not None
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_3') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_1_ascii') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_2_non_ascii__u2603') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_3') is not None
 
-    elif six.PY3:
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info.major < 3, reason='Python3 only test')
+def test_ddt_data_unicode_py3():
+    """
+    Test that unicode strings are converted to function names correctly
+    """
+    @ddt
+    class Mytest(object):
+        @data('ascii', 'non-ascii-\N{SNOWMAN}', {'\N{SNOWMAN}': 'data'})
+        def test_hello(self, val):
+            pass
 
-        @ddt
-        class Mytest(object):
-            @data('ascii', 'non-ascii-\N{SNOWMAN}', {'\N{SNOWMAN}': 'data'})
-            def test_hello(self, val):
-                pass
-
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_1_ascii') is not None
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_2_non_ascii__') is not None
-        assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_3') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_1_ascii') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_2_non_ascii__') is not None
+    assert getattr(Mytest, 'test_hello_3') is not None
 
 
 def test_ddt_data_object():
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index a5115b4..8888327 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ deps =
     pytest-cov
     coverage
     flake8
-    six>=1.4.0
     PyYAML
 commands = 
     pytest --cov=ddt --cov-report html