diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
index efbd61c0e..1dc1a6381 100755
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from optparse import OptionParser
 
 import scrapy
 from scrapy.utils.misc import render_templatefile, string_camelcase
-from scrapy.utils.misc import ignore_patterns, copytree
+from scrapy.utils.python import ignore_patterns, copytree
 
 usage = """
 scrapy-admin.py [options] [command]
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ def main():
         if len(args) >= 2:
             project_name = args[1]
             project_root_path = project_name
-            project_module_path = '%s/%s' % (project_name, project_name)
 
             roottpl = os.path.join(PROJECT_TEMPLATES_PATH, 'root')
             copytree(roottpl, project_name, ignore=IGNORE)
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
index 7660b8673..a4deb8578 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
@@ -175,65 +175,3 @@ def string_camelcase(string):
     """
     return CAMELCASE_INVALID_CHARS.sub('', string.title())
 
-
-# shutil.copytree from Python 2.6 (for backwards compatibility)
-import fnmatch
-import os
-from shutil import copy2, copystat
-
-
-try:
-    WindowsError
-except NameError:
-    WindowsError = None
-
-
-def ignore_patterns(*patterns):
-    def _ignore_patterns(path, names):
-        ignored_names = []
-        for pattern in patterns:
-            ignored_names.extend(fnmatch.filter(names, pattern))
-        return set(ignored_names)
-    return _ignore_patterns
-
-
-def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None):
-    names = os.listdir(src)
-    if ignore is not None:
-        ignored_names = ignore(src, names)
-    else:
-        ignored_names = set()
-
-    os.makedirs(dst)
-    errors = []
-    for name in names:
-        if name in ignored_names:
-            continue
-        srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
-        dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
-        try:
-            if symlinks and os.path.islink(srcname):
-                linkto = os.readlink(srcname)
-                os.symlink(linkto, dstname)
-            elif os.path.isdir(srcname):
-                copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
-            else:
-                copy2(srcname, dstname)
-            # XXX What about devices, sockets etc.?
-        except (IOError, os.error), why:
-            errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why)))
-        # catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can
-        # continue with other files
-        except Error, err:
-            errors.extend(err.args[0])
-    try:
-        copystat(src, dst)
-    except OSError, why:
-        if WindowsError is not None and isinstance(why, WindowsError):
-            # Copying file access times may fail on Windows
-            pass
-        else:
-            errors.extend((src, dst, str(why)))
-    if errors:
-        raise Error, errors
-
diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/python.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/python.py
index abbb81902..7589304df 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/python.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/python.py
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 """
 This module contains essential stuff that should've come with Python itself ;)
+
+It also contains functions (or functionality) which is in Python versions
+higher than 2.5 which is the lower version support by Scrapy.
+
 """
 import re
+import fnmatch
+import os
+from shutil import copy2, copystat
 from sgmllib import SGMLParser
 
 class FixedSGMLParser(SGMLParser):
@@ -165,3 +172,65 @@ def isbinarytext(text):
     """
     assert isinstance(text, str), "text must be str, got '%s'" % type(text).__name__
     return any(c in _BINARYCHARS for c in text)
+
+
+# ----- shutil.copytree function from Python 2.6 adds ignore argument ---- #
+
+try:
+    WindowsError
+except NameError:
+    WindowsError = None
+
+class Error(EnvironmentError):
+    pass
+
+def ignore_patterns(*patterns):
+    def _ignore_patterns(path, names):
+        ignored_names = []
+        for pattern in patterns:
+            ignored_names.extend(fnmatch.filter(names, pattern))
+        return set(ignored_names)
+    return _ignore_patterns
+
+def copytree(src, dst, symlinks=False, ignore=None):
+    names = os.listdir(src)
+    if ignore is not None:
+        ignored_names = ignore(src, names)
+    else:
+        ignored_names = set()
+
+    os.makedirs(dst)
+    errors = []
+    for name in names:
+        if name in ignored_names:
+            continue
+        srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
+        dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
+        try:
+            if symlinks and os.path.islink(srcname):
+                linkto = os.readlink(srcname)
+                os.symlink(linkto, dstname)
+            elif os.path.isdir(srcname):
+                copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
+            else:
+                copy2(srcname, dstname)
+            # XXX What about devices, sockets etc.?
+        except (IOError, os.error), why:
+            errors.append((srcname, dstname, str(why)))
+        # catch the Error from the recursive copytree so that we can
+        # continue with other files
+        except Error, err:
+            errors.extend(err.args[0])
+    try:
+        copystat(src, dst)
+    except OSError, why:
+        if WindowsError is not None and isinstance(why, WindowsError):
+            # Copying file access times may fail on Windows
+            pass
+        else:
+            errors.extend((src, dst, str(why)))
+    if errors:
+        raise Error, errors
+
+# ----- end of shutil.copytree function from Python 2.6 ---- #
+