diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index 57ed829ab..515108d9d 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ Direct access to cookiejars from spider
 In some cases it is required to directly set specific values in an existing
 cookiejar.
 
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 .. code-block:: python
 
     import scrapy