scrapy requires python 2.7 but i already have

Question

first of all i'm working on osx 10.6.8

i installed scrapy using the command:

sudo easy_install Scrapy

and everything seemed working fine. but when i try to create a new project using

scrapy startproject tutorial

i only get

Scrapy 0.22.2 requires Python 2.7

i tried this solution, but i get the same problem. how could i fix this?

EDIT: i think i have understood the problem: easy-install referrs to an older version of python (2.6) that it is in my system under /Library/Python/2.6 (probably it was pre-installed), so i installed scrapy for python 2.6! that's why i get the error. but now i don't know how to install scrapy for the right version of python!

Answer 1

i solved following [this][1] guide and executing again:

sudo easy_install scrapy

now it works!

Answer 2

Execute which python

and

python --version

my guess is scrapy is not linking to python2.7 by default.

Answer 3

Please, open /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/site-packages/scrapy/__init__.py and insert at line 14:

13 if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
14    print(sys.version_info)
15    print("Scrapy %s requires Python 2.7" % __version__)
16    sys.exit(1)

then scrapy startproject tutorial and show us the output