diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 41429a6..2a68bad 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@
 * Change API response fieldname `global_exclude_require` to `global exclude require` in sg.listignorewords endpoint
 
 
+### 0.21.45 (2020-09-11 16:25:00 UTC)
+
+* Fix autoProcessTV.py to use `config.readfp` under py2 as `config.read_file` is py3.x+.
+
+
 ### 0.21.44 (2020-09-11 10:10:00 UTC)
 
 * Fix thesubdb subtitle service under py3
diff --git a/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.py b/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.py
index 8e2ede1..2aecc53 100755
--- a/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.py
+++ b/autoProcessTV/autoProcessTV.py
@@ -76,7 +76,14 @@ def process_files(dir_to_process, org_nzb_name=None, status=None):
             print('Loading config from %s\n' % config_filename)
 
             with open(config_filename, 'r') as fp:
-                config.read_file(fp)
+                """ Under py3, `config.readfp` is flagged deprecated with advice to use read_file instead.
+                However, py2 doesn't have `read_file`, so a little defensive coding is added here
+                """
+                if callable(getattr(config, 'read_file', None)):
+                    config.read_file(fp)
+                else:
+                    # noinspection PyDeprecation
+                    config.readfp(fp)
 
             # Replace default values with config_file values
             host = config.get('SickBeard', 'host')