diff --git a/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py b/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py
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index de4f90d51..000000000
--- a/scrapy/spiders/__init__.py
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-from scrapy.spiders.crawl import CrawlSpider, Rule
-from scrapy.spiders.feed import XMLFeedSpider, CSVFeedSpider
-from scrapy.spiders.sitemap import SitemapSpider