README fixes, tz cleanup

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9836d04..f6915f4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Version 2.1pre
+--------------
+
+- New maintainer
+
+- Dateutil now works on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 fomr same codebase (with six)
+
+- https://launchpad.net/bugs/704047: Ismael Carnales' patch for a new time format
+
+- Small bug fixes, thanks for reporters!
+
+
 Version 2.0
 -----------
 

diff --git a/dateutil/tz.py b/dateutil/tz.py
index 9df184b..e736d58 100644
--- a/dateutil/tz.py
+++ b/dateutil/tz.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 __author__ = "Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>"
 __license__ = "Simplified BSD"
 
-from six import string_types
+from six import string_types, PY3
 
 import datetime
 import struct
@@ -28,14 +28,13 @@
     tzwin, tzwinlocal = None, None
 
 def tzname_in_python2(myfunc):
-    import six
     """Change unicode output into bytestrings in Python 2
 
     tzname() API changed in Python 3. It used to return bytes, but was changed
     to unicode strings
     """
     def inner_func(*args, **kwargs):
-        if six.PY3:
+        if PY3:
             return myfunc(*args, **kwargs)
         else:
             return myfunc(*args, **kwargs).encode()