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Cannot import '_win32stdio' (but pywin32 is already installed)

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I am using Python 3.5.1 (64 bit), Windows 10, VS 2015 Update 2. lxml (3.6.0) and pywin32 (220.1) are installed. Scrapy (1.1.0) was installed successfully. Then, when I run an example from ‘http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/overview.html’ in my virtual environment, I get the following exception:

(env) D:\Projects\tscrapy> scrapy runspider stackoverflow_spider.py -o top-stackoverflow-questions.json
2016-05-19 17:36:00 [scrapy] INFO: Scrapy 1.1.0 started (bot: scrapybot)
2016-05-19 17:36:00 [scrapy] INFO: Overridden settings: {'FEED_URI': 'top-stackoverflow-questions.json', 'FEED_FORMAT': 'json'}
2016-05-19 17:36:00 [scrapy] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats',
 'scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
 'scrapy.extensions.feedexport.FeedExporter']
Unhandled error in Deferred:
2016-05-19 17:36:00 [twisted] CRITICAL: Unhandled error in Deferred:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\commands\runspider.py", line 87, in run
    self.crawler_process.crawl(spidercls, **opts.spargs)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 163, in crawl
    return self._crawl(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 167, in _crawl
    d = crawler.crawl(*args, **kwargs)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1274, in unwindGenerator
    return _inlineCallbacks(None, gen, Deferred())
--- <exception caught here> ---
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1128, in _inlineCallbacks
    result = g.send(result)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 72, in crawl
    self.engine = self._create_engine()
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 97, in _create_engine
    return ExecutionEngine(self, lambda _: self.stop())
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\engine.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.downloader = downloader_cls(crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\downloader\__init__.py", line 88, in __init__
    self.middleware = DownloaderMiddlewareManager.from_crawler(crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\middleware.py", line 58, in from_crawler
    return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings, crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\middleware.py", line 34, in from_settings
    mwcls = load_object(clspath)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\misc.py", line 44, in load_object
    mod = import_module(module)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module

  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed

  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\downloadermiddlewares\retry.py", line 23, in <module>
    from scrapy.xlib.tx import ResponseFailed
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\xlib\tx\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from twisted.web import client
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\web\client.py", line 41, in <module>
    from twisted.internet.endpoints import TCP4ClientEndpoint, SSL4ClientEndpoint
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\endpoints.py", line 34, in <module>
    from twisted.internet.stdio import StandardIO, PipeAddress
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\stdio.py", line 30, in <module>
    from twisted.internet import _win32stdio
builtins.ImportError: cannot import name '_win32stdio'
2016-05-19 17:36:00 [twisted] CRITICAL:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\defer.py", line 1128, in _inlineCallbacks
    result = g.send(result)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 72, in crawl
    self.engine = self._create_engine()
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 97, in _create_engine
    return ExecutionEngine(self, lambda _: self.stop())
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\engine.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.downloader = downloader_cls(crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\core\downloader\__init__.py", line 88, in __init__
    self.middleware = DownloaderMiddlewareManager.from_crawler(crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\middleware.py", line 58, in from_crawler
    return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings, crawler)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\middleware.py", line 34, in from_settings
    mwcls = load_object(clspath)
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\utils\misc.py", line 44, in load_object
    mod = import_module(module)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\downloadermiddlewares\retry.py", line 23, in <module>
    from scrapy.xlib.tx import ResponseFailed
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\scrapy\xlib\tx\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from twisted.web import client
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\web\client.py", line 41, in <module>
    from twisted.internet.endpoints import TCP4ClientEndpoint, SSL4ClientEndpoint
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\endpoints.py", line 34, in <module>
    from twisted.internet.stdio import StandardIO, PipeAddress
  File "d:\projects\tscrapy\env\lib\site-packages\twisted\internet\stdio.py", line 30, in <module>
    from twisted.internet import _win32stdio
ImportError: cannot import name '_win32stdio'

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State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

ghostcommented, May 22, 2016

You can get scrapy to work if you copy the _win23stdio and _pollingfile from the current repository. Of course, it’s not official.

0reactions

Gallaeciocommented, Aug 19, 2019

It should be working now.

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