diff --git a/scripts/cpp_lint.py b/scripts/cpp_lint.py
index 6ec4fb76e2c..b2016d4b6dd 100755
--- a/scripts/cpp_lint.py
+++ b/scripts/cpp_lint.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python2
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2009 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 #
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
 import sys
 import unicodedata
 
+import six
+
+from six import iteritems, itervalues
+from six.moves import xrange
 
 _USAGE = """
 Syntax: cpp_lint.py [--verbose=#] [--output=vs7] [--filter=-x,+y,...]
@@ -756,7 +760,7 @@ def IncrementErrorCount(self, category):
 
   def PrintErrorCounts(self):
     """Print a summary of errors by category, and the total."""
-    for category, count in self.errors_by_category.iteritems():
+    for category, count in iteritems(self.errors_by_category):
       sys.stderr.write('Category \'%s\' errors found: %d\n' %
                        (category, count))
     sys.stderr.write('Total errors found: %d\n' % self.error_count)
@@ -3444,16 +3448,16 @@ def GetLineWidth(line):
     The width of the line in column positions, accounting for Unicode
     combining characters and wide characters.
   """
-  if isinstance(line, unicode):
-    width = 0
-    for uc in unicodedata.normalize('NFC', line):
-      if unicodedata.east_asian_width(uc) in ('W', 'F'):
-        width += 2
-      elif not unicodedata.combining(uc):
-        width += 1
-    return width
-  else:
-    return len(line)
+  if six.PY2:
+    if isinstance(line, unicode):
+      width = 0
+      for uc in unicodedata.normalize('NFC', line):
+        if unicodedata.east_asian_width(uc) in ('W', 'F'):
+          width += 2
+        elif not unicodedata.combining(uc):
+          width += 1
+      return width
+  return len(line)
 
 
 def CheckStyle(filename, clean_lines, linenum, file_extension, nesting_state,
@@ -3774,7 +3778,7 @@ def _GetTextInside(text, start_pattern):
 
   # Give opening punctuations to get the matching close-punctuations.
   matching_punctuation = {'(': ')', '{': '}', '[': ']'}
-  closing_punctuation = set(matching_punctuation.itervalues())
+  closing_punctuation = set(itervalues(matching_punctuation))
 
   # Find the position to start extracting text.
   match = re.search(start_pattern, text, re.M)
@@ -4851,10 +4855,11 @@ def main():
 
   # Change stderr to write with replacement characters so we don't die
   # if we try to print something containing non-ASCII characters.
-  sys.stderr = codecs.StreamReaderWriter(sys.stderr,
-                                         codecs.getreader('utf8'),
-                                         codecs.getwriter('utf8'),
-                                         'replace')
+  if six.PY2:
+    sys.stderr = codecs.StreamReaderWriter(sys.stderr,
+                                          codecs.getreader('utf8'),
+                                          codecs.getwriter('utf8'),
+                                          'replace')
 
   _cpplint_state.ResetErrorCounts()
   for filename in filenames: