Installing on CentOS7 (Python 2.7.5)

[Hiroki111]

I've run pip install scrapy, but it doesn't seem that this has been installed properly.

Now when I ran scrapy on CLI, it ends up in the following message.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/scrapy", line 6, in <module>
    from scrapy.cmdline import execute
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 10, in <module>
    from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 11, in <module>
    from scrapy.core.engine import ExecutionEngine
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/engine.py", line 14, in <module>
    from scrapy.core.scraper import Scraper
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/scraper.py", line 18, in <module>
    from scrapy.core.spidermw import SpiderMiddlewareManager
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/core/spidermw.py", line 13, in <module>
    from scrapy.utils.conf import build_component_list
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/utils/conf.py", line 4, in <module>
    import configparser
ImportError: No module named configparser

I googled configparser, and apparently this used to be called ConfigParser.

Has anyone seen this issue?
Any advice will be appreciated.

[marsam]

addressed by #3887

[elacuesta]

Hello @Hiroki111, please see my explanation at #3887 (comment).
As a temporary workaround, I believe you should be able to make it work by installing the configparser backport (https://pypi.org/project/configparser/)