From c51cbcfe813a655f47da30af2c760a32991e02d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugenio Lacuesta <eugenio.lacuesta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:53:17 -0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix ConfigParser import in py2

---
 scrapy/utils/conf.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/utils/conf.py b/scrapy/utils/conf.py
index 26d66eaf8..fb7ca3310 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/conf.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/conf.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import numbers
-import configparser
 from operator import itemgetter
 
 import six
+if six.PY2:
+    from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser as ConfigParser
+else:
+    from configparser import ConfigParser
 
 from scrapy.settings import BaseSettings
 from scrapy.utils.deprecate import update_classpath
@@ -94,7 +97,7 @@ def init_env(project='default', set_syspath=True):
 def get_config(use_closest=True):
     """Get Scrapy config file as a ConfigParser"""
     sources = get_sources(use_closest)
-    cfg = configparser.ConfigParser()
+    cfg = ConfigParser()
     cfg.read(sources)
     return cfg
 

From 77beab37968b2347f1e06fa63ed8881681330b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Adri=C3=A1n=20Chaves?= <adrian@chaves.io>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:04:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Cover Scrapy 1.7.2 in the release notes

---
 docs/news.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index a0f0c5697..d79844ed2 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ Release notes
 .. note:: Scrapy 1.x will be the last series supporting Python 2. Scrapy 2.0,
           planned for Q4 2019 or Q1 2020, will support **Python 3 only**.
 
+Scrapy 1.7.2 (2019-07-23)
+-------------------------
+
+Fix Python 2 support (:issue:`3889`, :issue:`3893`, :issue:`3896`).
+
+
 Scrapy 1.7.1 (2019-07-18)
 -------------------------