diff --git a/roles/fedmsg/hub/files/websockets.py b/roles/fedmsg/hub/files/websockets.py
index b7f627af0e..9563b6b9c0 100644
--- a/roles/fedmsg/hub/files/websockets.py
+++ b/roles/fedmsg/hub/files/websockets.py
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-
 config = {
     # The presence of this will cause fedmsg-hub to start its own websocket
     # server along with it.
     'moksha.livesocket.websocket.port': 9919,
 }
+
+# And... this is a hack to get python-txws to work with python-six on epel7
+import six
+six.PY2 = not six.PY3