Scrapy always running same command from command prompt - scrapy

Question

I'm trying to learn Scrapy on BashOnUbunty on Windows 10. I created a spider (yelprest) using the genspider command, and then directly created another spider (quotes_spider) by creating the spider file (followed the official tutorial https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html).
The first spider is not yet tested, but I tried to go through the tutorial with second spider, and when I try to run, I'm getting an error which points to the first spider. Also, when I try to run any other scrapy command like version, I'm getting the same error as above. Below is the error:
(BashEnv) root > scrapy version
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/bin/scrapy", line 11, in <module>
sys.exit(execute())
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/cmdline.py", line 148, in execute
cmd.crawler_process = CrawlerProcess(settings)
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 243, in __init__
super(CrawlerProcess, self).__init__(settings)
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 134, in __init__
self.spider_loader = _get_spider_loader(settings)
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/crawler.py", line 330, in _get_spider_loader
return loader_cls.from_settings(settings.frozencopy())
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/spiderloader.py", line 61, in from_settings
return cls(settings)
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/spiderloader.py", line 25, in __init__
self._load_all_spiders()
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/spiderloader.py", line 47, in _load_all_spiders
for module in walk_modules(name):
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scrapy/utils/misc.py", line 71, in walk_modules
submod = import_module(fullpath)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
__import__(name)
File "/mnt/s/BashEnv/Scrapy/Scrapy/spiders/yelprest.py", line 14
rules = (
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
(BashEnv) root >
I'm not understanding why I am getting the same error for any command I give.

Answer 1

There is some error in your yelprest.py file (at line 14 or before): it is not valid Python. Fix this error and everything will work. Make sure your file is correctly indented and do not mix spaces and tabs.
Edit:
To make sure the error is in this file, just delete it. If everything works without this file, the error must be there!
Update:
Your question does not state it clearly, but by your comment your question is "why does Scrapy load my spider code for every command?". And the answer is: because Scrapy was made to do it. Some commands can be run only inside a project, like check or crawl. And some commands may be run anywhere, like startproject. But inside a Scrapy project, ANY command will load ALL your code. Scrapy was made this way.
For example, I have a project named crawler (I know, very descriptive!):
$ cd ~
$ scrapy version
Scrapy 1.4.0
$ cd crawler/
$ scrapy version
2017-10-31 14:47:42 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 1.4.0 started (bot: crawler)
2017-10-31 14:47:42 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Overridden settings: {...}
Scrapy 1.4.0