Changing six.iteritems(kwargs) to kwargs.items() to improve
readability of code and reduce the use of python package six
Change-Id: I7460c0274b790efcd53ee9d1c0bc538effb950dd
As we are moving to the next iteration of the project for Ocata,
I think it would be helpul to makesure that the codebase is
fully compatible in py27 and in py35. Also, some minor styling
changes, removing uncessary spaces etc.
Change-Id: I9aac07dc180cd3a7c7885661bdad985c183ae0a9