Index: boto/boto/compat.py
===================================================================
--- boto.orig/boto/compat.py
+++ boto/boto/compat.py
@@ -46,15 +46,23 @@ except (AttributeError, ImportError):
     # This is probably running on App Engine.
     expanduser = (lambda x: x)
 
-from boto.vendored import six
-
-from boto.vendored.six import BytesIO, StringIO
-from boto.vendored.six.moves import filter, http_client, map, _thread, \
-                                    urllib, zip
-from boto.vendored.six.moves.queue import Queue
-from boto.vendored.six.moves.urllib.parse import parse_qs, quote, unquote, \
-                                                 urlparse, urlsplit
-from boto.vendored.six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
+try:
+    import six
+    from six import BytesIO, StringIO
+    from six.moves import filter, http_client, map, _thread, urllib, zip
+    from six.moves.queue import Queue
+    from six.moves.urllib.parse import parse_qs, quote, unquote, urlparse, \
+                                       urlsplit
+    from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+    from boto.vendored import six
+    from boto.vendored.six import BytesIO, StringIO
+    from boto.vendored.six.moves import filter, http_client, map, _thread, \
+                                        urllib, zip
+    from boto.vendored.six.moves.queue import Queue
+    from boto.vendored.six.moves.urllib.parse import parse_qs, quote, unquote, \
+                                                     urlparse, urlsplit
+    from boto.vendored.six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
 
 if six.PY3:
     # StandardError was removed, so use the base exception type instead
Index: boto/setup.py
===================================================================
--- boto.orig/setup.py
+++ boto/setup.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ setup(name = "boto",
                   "boto.elastictranscoder", "boto.opsworks", "boto.redshift",
                   "boto.dynamodb2", "boto.support", "boto.cloudtrail",
                   "boto.directconnect", "boto.kinesis", "boto.rds2",
-                  "boto.cloudsearch2", "boto.logs", "boto.vendored",
+                  "boto.cloudsearch2", "boto.logs",
                   "boto.route53.domains", "boto.cognito",
                   "boto.cognito.identity", "boto.cognito.sync",
                   "boto.cloudsearchdomain", "boto.kms",