documentation seems incorrect

[leaf-node]

This seems to be a contradiction:

import spi
spi = SPI("/dev/spidev1.0")

One would have to do either of the following:

from spi import *
spi = SPI("/dev/spidev1.0")

import spi
x = spi.SPI("/dev/spidev1.0")

[QuantumFluxCapacitor]

Judging by the issue list, the author has not worked on this package in quite some time.