Unable to import items in scrapy

Question

I have a very basic spider, following the instructions in the getting started guide, but for some reason, trying to import my items into my spider returns an error. Spider a

Answer 1

I also had this several times while working with scrapy. You could add at the beginning of your Python modules this line:

from __future__ import absolute_import

More info here:

• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328/#rationale-for-absolute-imports
• http://pythonquirks.blogspot.ru/2010/07/absolutely-relative-import.html