From 53fdaa3f70e662b21d209e2094dffba9cd33823f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julia Medina <who.knows.shia@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 04:21:50 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] scrapy/spider.py shim

---
 conftest.py      | 1 +
 scrapy/spider.py | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scrapy/spider.py

diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
index 5e7090199..5829f2952 100644
--- a/conftest.py
+++ b/conftest.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ collect_ignore = [
     "scrapy/dupefilter.py",
     "scrapy/command.py",
     "scrapy/linkextractor.py",
+    "scrapy/spider.py",
 ] + _py_files("scrapy/contrib") + _py_files("scrapy/contrib_exp")
 
 
diff --git a/scrapy/spider.py b/scrapy/spider.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..56a5a0a0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scrapy/spider.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import warnings
+from scrapy.exceptions import ScrapyDeprecationWarning
+warnings.warn("Module `scrapy.spider` is deprecated, "
+              "use `scrapy.spiders` instead",
+              ScrapyDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
+
+from scrapy.spiders import *