How to import django models in scrapy pipelines.py file

I'm trying to import models of one django application in my pipelines.py to save data using django orm. I created a scrapy project scrapy_project in the first involved django application "app1" (is it a good choice by the way?). I added these lines to my scrapy settings file:

def setup_django_env(path):
  import imp, os
  from django.core.management import setup_environ

  f, filename, desc = imp.find_module('settings', [path])
  project = imp.load_module('settings', f, filename, desc)

  setup_environ(project)

current_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
setup_django_env(os.path.join(current_dir, '../../d_project1'))

When I try to import models of my django application app1 I get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/scrapy", line 4, in <module>
    execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 122, in execute
    _run_print_help(parser, _run_command, cmd, args, opts)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 76, in     _run_print_help
    func(*a, **kw)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 129, in     _run_command
    cmd.run(args, opts)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/commands/crawl.py", line 43, in     run
    spider = self.crawler.spiders.create(spname, **opts.spargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/command.py", line 33, in crawler
    self._crawler.configure()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 41, in configure
    self.engine = ExecutionEngine(self, self._spider_closed)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 63, in     __init__
    self.scraper = Scraper(crawler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/core/scraper.py", line 66, in     __init__
    self.itemproc = itemproc_cls.from_crawler(crawler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/middleware.py", line 50, in     from_crawler
    return cls.from_settings(crawler.settings, crawler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/middleware.py", line 29, in     from_settings
    mwcls = load_object(clspath)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 39, in     load_object
    raise ImportError, "Error loading object '%s': %s" % (path, e)
ImportError: Error loading object 'scrapy_project.pipelines.storage.storage': No module         named dydict.models

Why cannot scrapy access django application models (given that app1 in the installed_app ) ?

Solution

Try:

from .. models import MyModel

from ... models import MyModel

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