From 20719bac5cdc4898e9f01fcf4f92aa781a9d0ad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:09:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix import error

---
 scrapy/settings/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/settings/__init__.py b/scrapy/settings/__init__.py
index c1fff4d95..98421be18 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/__init__.py
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ class BaseSettings(MutableMapping):
         value = self.get(name, default)
         if value is None:
             return {}
-        if isinstance(value, six.string_types):
+        if isinstance(value, str):
             try:
                 return json.loads(value, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
             except ValueError: