Question

I have the following folder structure

/project
   /scrape
        item.py
        /spiders
               myscraper.py

inside the file item.py i have a declaration for

class MyItem(Item): 

with a lot more code in it.

I am trying to run scrapy as

scrapy crawl myscraper

from the folder /project, but I keep getting the error.

 exceptions.NameError: global name 'MyItem' is not defined

Would anyone know what I need to do different to make sure scrapy sees my item.py file?
Thanks

Answer 1

I can’t be sure because I can see so few of your code, but it looks like you have a circular import.

Check if you are not importing something from one file and vice-versa, rearrange your code so that it doesn’t happen anymore.