subscription-manager fails with: `AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'partial'`

Issue

• Unable to execute any subscription-manager command due to the error of AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'partial'

# subscription-manager clean
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/sbin/subscription-manager", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('subscription-manager==1.24.50', 'console_scripts', 'subscription-manager')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 378, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2566, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2260, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/subscription_manager/scripts/subscription_manager.py", line 27, in <module>
    import six
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/six.py", line 628, in <module>
    iterbytes = functools.partial(itertools.imap, ord)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'partial'