Installing Python module with pip

Question

I'm trying to install a module called Scrapy. I installed it using

pip install Scrapy

I see the 'scrapy' folder in my /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages, but when I try to import it in a Python program, is says there is no module by that name. Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

EDIT: Here is the output of the pip command:

    Downloading/unpacking Scrapy
  Downloading Scrapy-0.20.0.tar.gz (745kB): 745kB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package Scrapy

    no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/build'
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): Twisted>=10.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): w3lib>=1.2 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): queuelib in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): lxml in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pyOpenSSL in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): cssselect>=0.9 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): zope.interface>=3.6.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Twisted>=10.0.0->Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.4.1 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from w3lib>=1.2->Scrapy)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-1.1.6-py2.7.egg (from zope.interface>=3.6.0->Twisted>=10.0.0->Scrapy)
Installing collected packages: Scrapy
  Running setup.py install for Scrapy
    changing mode of build/scripts-2.7/scrapy from 644 to 755

    no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/build'
    changing mode of /usr/local/bin/scrapy to 755
Successfully installed Scrapy
Cleaning up...

When I run /usr/local/bin/scrapy I get the usage for the command and the available commands. I noticed that I have a python2.7 and python2.7-32 in my /usr/local/bin, and I remember installing the 32 bit version because of a problem with Mavericks.

Here is the output of python /usr/local/bin/scrapy:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/scrapy", line 3, in <module> from scrapy.cmdline import execute ImportError: No module named scrapy.cmdline 

And head /usr/local/bin/scrapy:

#!/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 from scrapy.cmdline import execute execute()

Answer 1

Are you using Homebrew or MacPorts or something? As @J.F.Sebastian said, it sounds like you are having issues mixing the default python that comes with OS X, and one that is installed via a package manager... Try /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -m scrapy and see if that throws an ImportError.

If that works, then you may want to consider making that python executable your default. Something like alias python2.7=/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 and then always use python2.7 instead of the default python. You can likewise just point python to the /urs/local... bit, but then you won't have easy access to the system (OS X-supplied) python if you ever needed it for some reason.