diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
index d434a7bfd..12adaaddd 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.contrib.exporter` is deprecated, "
               ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
 
 from scrapy.exporters import *
+from scrapy.exporters import PythonItemExporter