diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
index 80dc704e4..e0c57251a 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/exporter/__init__.py
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ class XmlItemExporter(BaseItemExporter):
 
     def _export_xml_field(self, name, serialized_value):
         self.xg.startElement(name, {})
+        print '%r %r' % (name, serialized_value), self.encoding
         self.xg.characters(serialized_value)
         self.xg.endElement(name)
 
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/decorator.py b/scrapy/utils/decorator.py
index a2840628d..1aea24ade 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/decorator.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/decorator.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import sys
 import warnings
 from functools import wraps