diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_python.py b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_python.py
index 9122cf1be..be81dd26c 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_python.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_python.py
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ class UtilsPythonTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         # TODO: how do we fix this to return the actual argument names?
         self.assertEqual(get_func_args(unicode.split), [])
         self.assertEqual(get_func_args(" ".join), [])
+        self.assertEqual(get_func_args(operator.itemgetter(2)), [])
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/python.py b/scrapy/utils/python.py
index 6e03d2c12..551d337eb 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/python.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/python.py
@@ -147,6 +147,8 @@ def get_func_args(func, stripself=False):
     elif hasattr(func, '__call__'):
         if inspect.isroutine(func):
             return []
+        elif getattr(func, '__name__', None) == '__call__':
+            return []
         else:
             return get_func_args(func.__call__, True)
     else: