Updating Scrapy Spider does not reflect changes
As @alecxe recommended in the comments, removing the .pyc files followed by re-running the scrapy crawl crawler-name recompiles the python code and creates the new, update .pyc files.
I'm using Scrapy 1.0.3 with Python 2.7.6. I've placed print statements in a file under the /spiders directory for debugging purposes. However, I've more recently added new print statements but scrapy isn't throwing it onto the console. Finding this suspicious, I removed the previous print statements to see if scrapy would update the output accordingly. However, the output from the previous working code still remains the same.
I'm suspecting that scrapy caches the working codes and found .Python to be a suspecting file which I've removed but the issue remains.
Some google-fu didn't help either and I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me if the issue lies with python or scrapy?