diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79de688628
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/7821-mssql_script-py2.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - "mssql_script - make the module work with Python 2 (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/issues/7818, https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7821)."
diff --git a/plugins/modules/mssql_script.py b/plugins/modules/mssql_script.py
index 13c52c9bfe..00b92e7312 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/mssql_script.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/mssql_script.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def run_module():
     # Process the script into batches
     queries = []
     current_batch = []
-    for statement in script.splitlines(keepends=True):
+    for statement in script.splitlines(True):
         # Ignore the Byte Order Mark, if found
         if statement.strip() == '\uFEFF':
             continue