diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
index 7239eb693..6bb2f4c6d 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import os, pickle
+import os
+import cPickle as pickle
 
 SETTINGS_MODULE = os.environ.get('SCRAPYSETTINGS_MODULE', 'scrapy_settings')
 
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/store/db.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/store/db.py
index 4f3fbc26f..f38e6edda 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/store/db.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/store/db.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """
 Store implementations using a MySQL DB
 """
-import pickle
+import cPickle as pickle
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from scrapy.utils.misc import stats_getpath