diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_urllib.py b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_urllib.py
index 5a36049df5c..ab892bc5249 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/fixes/fix_urllib.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
                 ("urllib.request",
                     ["URLopener", "FancyURLopener", "urlretrieve",
                      "_urlopener", "urlopen", "urlcleanup",
-                     "pathname2url", "url2pathname"]),
+                     "pathname2url", "url2pathname", "getproxies"]),
                 ("urllib.parse",
                     ["quote", "quote_plus", "unquote", "unquote_plus",
                      "urlencode", "splitattr", "splithost", "splitnport",
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_fixers.py b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_fixers.py
index a2852419818..121ebe68e54 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_fixers.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/tests/test_fixers.py
@@ -1913,7 +1913,11 @@ def foo():
 """
         self.check(b, a)
 
+    def test_single_import(self):
+        b = "from urllib import getproxies"
+        a = "from urllib.request import getproxies"
 
+        self.check(b, a)
 
     def test_import_module_usage(self):
         for old, changes in self.modules.items():
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-09-18-13-49-56.bpo-38080.Nbl7lF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-09-18-13-49-56.bpo-38080.Nbl7lF.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1b6def15e72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-09-18-13-49-56.bpo-38080.Nbl7lF.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Added support to fix ``getproxies`` in the :mod:`lib2to3.fixes.fix_urllib`
+module. Patch by José Roberto Meza Cabrera.