Running Portia (scrapy) On Windows

I have succefully installed Portia on Windows 8.1 according to this guide http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html#windows (used pip instead of easy_install). When starti

Solution 1:

You have unfortunately been bitten by a regression introduced by the Python 2.7.7 release:

http://bugs.python.org/issue21652

Downgrading to Python 2.7.6 or earlier will address this issue for now.