Cannot import either Scrapy's settings module or its scrapy.cfg

Question

This is a quite lengthy post, but after doing extensive research I couldn\'t find a solution. I have a mixed Django 1.4.1 / Scrapy 0.14.4 project on OSX 10.8 and I control S

Answer 1

If you look at the code branch that raises this exception and the definition of the closest_scrapy_cfg function that it calls, the only place scrapy is looking for your scrapy.cfg is in the dir you run the command from and any parent directory. You can maybe run os.chdir in your manage.py, or move your scrapy.cfg to the directory you're running from.