diff --git a/scrapy/utils/py26.py b/scrapy/utils/py26.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1db548d8e
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+++ b/scrapy/utils/py26.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import json
+from shutil import copytree, ignore_patterns
+from multiprocessing import cpu_count
+from pkgutil import get_data
+
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+
+import warnings
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.utils.py26` is deprecated and will be removed in Scrapy 0.17",
+    ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)