diff --git a/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc b/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
index e4eae4ef436..3605026ff3e 100644
--- a/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
+++ b/meta-python/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-python.inc
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST_META_PYTHON = "\
     python3-service-identity \
     python3-setproctitle \
     python3-simpleeval \
+    python3-six \
     python3-smpplib \
     python3-soupsieve \
     python3-sqlparse \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-six.inc b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-six.inc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f7a62b60688
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-six.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+SUMMARY = "Python 2 and 3 compatibility library"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://pypi.org/project/six/"
+SECTION = "devel/python"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=e50fab7e9501f3dfc920eafeb24b46ea"
+
+inherit pypi
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-io"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ca120e03086
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+inherit setuptools3 ptest-python-pytest
+require python-six.inc
+
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ff70335d468e7eb6ec65b95b99d3a2836546063f63acc5171de367e834932a81"
+
+PTEST_PYTEST_DIR = "."
+
+# test_six.py exercises the six.moves mappings, which import these stdlib
+# modules that are packaged separately in oe-core.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
+    python3-html \
+    python3-netclient \
+    python3-xmlrpc \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest:append() {
+    # six ships its test at the sdist root; keep only test_six.py plus the
+    # generated run-ptest, and drop the packaged library sources / bytecode.
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/six.py
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/setup.py ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/setup.cfg ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/MANIFEST.in
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/CHANGES ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/README.rst ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/PKG-INFO ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/LICENSE
+    rm -rf ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/build ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/documentation ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/six.egg-info ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/__pycache__
+}