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python /usr/local/bin/scrapy startproject amz

On Monday, July 21, 2014 2:15:32 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I am hitting the same issue with a different name
>
> root@crawl:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/templates/project# 
> scrapy startproject amazn
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/scrapy", line 4, in <module>
>     execute()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 
> 109, in execute
>     settings = get_project_settings()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/utils/project.py", 
> line 60, in get_project_settings
>     settings.setmodule(settings_module_path, priority='project')
>   File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/settings/__init__.py", line 
> 109, in setmodule
>     module = import_module(module)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in 
> import_module
>     __import__(name)
> ImportError: No module named ${project_name}.settings
>
>
>
> On Monday, July 21, 2014 11:26:29 AM UTC-4, Mikhail Korobov wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like a common gotcha - there is "test" module in standard 
>> library, and this makes startproject fail. Try using another name. 
>> See also: https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/428
>>
>> понедельник, 21 июля 2014 г., 21:03:19 UTC+6 пользователь 
>> [email protected] написал:
>>>
>>> I am new to scrapy. 
>>>
>>> I am installed scrapy 2.4.2 on debian wheezy using pip.  Seemingly, 
>>> worked fine.  when I run "scrapy startproject test" from 
>>> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/templates/project directory, 
>>> I get ImportError: No module named ${project_name}.settings.  I am not sure 
>>> as what the issue is and how I could correct it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>

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