How use dir() function to see inside scrapy module - python-3.x

Question

From the documentation:
Without arguments, return the list of names in the current local scope. With an argument, attempt to return a list of valid attributes for that object.
So i try see inside the scrapy module
import scrapy is a module right, or im wrong?
>>>dir(scrapy)
NameError: name 'scrapy' is not defined
Im complete newb in python and just try understand how works.
How can i see inside modules like documentation examples
>>> dir(sys)
['__displayhook__', '__doc__', '__excepthook__', '__loader__', '__name__',
'__package__', '__stderr__', '__stdin__', '__stdout__',
'_clear_type_cache', '_current_frames', '_debugmallocstats', '_getframe',
'_home', '_mercurial', '_xoptions', 'abiflags', 'api_version', 'argv',
'base_exec_prefix', 'base_prefix', 'builtin_module_names', 'byteorder',
'call_tracing', 'callstats', 'copyright', 'displayhook',
'dont_write_bytecode', 'exc_info', 'excepthook', 'exec_prefix',
'executable', 'exit', 'flags', 'float_info', 'float_repr_style',
'getcheckinterval', 'getdefaultencoding', 'getdlopenflags',
'getfilesystemencoding', 'getobjects', 'getprofile', 'getrecursionlimit',
'getrefcount', 'getsizeof', 'getswitchinterval', 'gettotalrefcount',
'gettrace', 'hash_info', 'hexversion', 'implementation', 'int_info',
'intern', 'maxsize', 'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path',
'path_hooks', 'path_importer_cache', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1',
'setcheckinterval', 'setdlopenflags', 'setprofile', 'setrecursionlimit',
'setswitchinterval', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout',
'thread_info', 'version', 'version_info', 'warnoptions']

Answer 1

Try this from your python interpreter:
In [1]: import scrapy
In [2]: dir(scrapy)
Out[2]:
['Field',
'FormRequest',
'Item',
'Request',
'Selector',
'Spider',
'__all__',
'__builtins__',
'__cached__',
'__doc__',
'__file__',
'__loader__',
'__name__',
'__package__',
'__path__',
'__spec__',
'__version__',
'_txv',
'exceptions',
'http',
'item',
'link',
'selector',
'signals',
'spiders',
'twisted_version',
'utils',
'version_info']
This worked for me in both Python 2 and 3. I have also confirmed that it works in both iPython and the standard interpreter. If it does not work for you even with the import, your environment may have gotten messed up in some way, and we can troubleshoot further.
import scrapy is a module right, or im wrong?
In this case scrapy is a module, and import scrapy is the syntax for making that module available in whatever context you are invoking the import from. This section of the Python tutorial has information on modules and importing them.