title: File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _gcd_import error
body: <p>I made a simple crawler that's supposed to get and download the images from an instagram profile but I keep getting this error message.</p>
  <p>I tried following this tutorial <a href="https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/media-pipeline.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/media-pipeline.html</a></p>
  <pre><code>#instagarm_spider.py
  
  class InstagramSpider(scrapy.Spider):
      name = 'ig'
  
      start_urls = [
          'https://www.instagram.com/kyliejenner/'
      ]
      def parse(self, response):
          image_urls = scrapy.Field()
          images = scrapy.Field()
          yield {'image_urls': image_urls,
                 'images': images}
  
  </code></pre>
  <h1>settings.py</h1>
  <pre><code>BOT_NAME = 'instagramscraper' SPIDER_MODULES = ['instagramscraper.spiders'] 
  
  NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'instagramscraper.spiders' 
  
  ITEM_PIPELINES = { 'scrapy.pipelines.images.ImagesPipeline': 1 } 
  
  IMAGES_STORE = 
  
  'C:\Users\jliv3\PycharmProjects\Instagram\instagramscraper\instagramscraper\sp
  
  iders\test'
  </code></pre>
  <p>Here are all the error messages I recieved.</p>
  <pre><code> File &quot;C:\Users\jliv3\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py&quot;, 
  
  line 193, in _run_module_as_main
  
      &quot;__main__&quot;, mod_spec)
  
    File &quot;C:\Users\jliv3\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\runpy.py&quot;, 
  
  line 85, in _run_code
  
      exec(code, run_globals)
  
    File 
  
  &quot;C:\Users\jliv3\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\Scripts\scrapy.exe\__main__.py&quot;
  
  , line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
  
    File &quot;c:\users\jliv3\pycharmprojects\instagram\venv\lib\site-
  
  packages\scrapy\cmdline.py&quot;, line 114, in execute
  
      settings = get_project_settings()
  
    File &quot;c:\users\jliv3\pycharmprojects\instagram\venv\lib\site-
  
  packages\scrapy\utils\project.py&quot;, line 68, in get_project_settings
      
  settings.setmodule(settings_module_path, priority='project')
   
   File &quot;c:\users\jliv3\pycharmprojects\instagram\venv\lib\site-
  
  packages\scrapy\settings\__init__.py&quot;, line 294, in setmodule
      
  module = import_module(module)
    
  File 
  
  &quot;C:\Users\jliv3\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\importlib\__init__.
  
  py&quot;, line 127, in import_module
      
  return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 1006, in _gcd_import
   
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 983, in _find_and_load
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 677, in _load_unlocked
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap_external&gt;&quot;, line 724, in exec_module
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap_external&gt;&quot;, line 860, in get_code
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap_external&gt;&quot;, line 791, in source_to_code
    
  File &quot;&lt;frozen importlib._bootstrap&gt;&quot;, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
    
  File 
  
  &quot;C:\Users\jliv3\PycharmProjects\Instagram\instagramscraper\instagramscraper\se
  
  ttings.py&quot;, line 70
      
  IMAGES_STORE = 
  
  'C:\Users\jliv3\PycharmProjects\Instagram\instagramscraper\instagramscraper\spiders\test'
                    ^
  SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
  </code></pre>