diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/scrapy-ctl.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/scrapy-ctl.py
index 578358f53..e8e56eaf2 100755
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/scrapy-ctl.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/project_template/scrapy-ctl.py
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
-import sys, os
-sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.getcwd()))
-
 from scrapy.command.cmdline import execute
 execute()