diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
index da5c57a39..2d5e64fd3 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import scrapy
 
+
 class $classname(scrapy.Spider):
     name = "$name"
     allowed_domains = ["$domain"]
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index 25e84f940..c0f7f1921 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from scrapy.contrib.linkextractors.sgml import SgmlLinkExtractor
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CrawlSpider, Rule
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
 
+
 class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     name = '$name'
     allowed_domains = ['$domain']
@@ -13,9 +14,8 @@ class $classname(CrawlSpider):
     )
 
     def parse_item(self, response):
-        sel = scrapy.Selector(response)
         i = ${ProjectName}Item()
-        #i['domain_id'] = sel.xpath('//input[@id="sid"]/@value').extract()
-        #i['name'] = sel.xpath('//div[@id="name"]').extract()
-        #i['description'] = sel.xpath('//div[@id="description"]').extract()
+        #i['domain_id'] = response.xpath('//input[@id="sid"]/@value').extract()
+        #i['name'] = response.xpath('//div[@id="name"]').extract()
+        #i['description'] = response.xpath('//div[@id="description"]').extract()
         return i
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
index 7551686a6..6ef84b524 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CSVFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
 
+
 class $classname(CSVFeedSpider):
     name = '$name'
     allowed_domains = ['$domain']
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
index 915affee5..ffff70632 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import XMLFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
 
+
 class $classname(XMLFeedSpider):
     name = '$name'
     allowed_domains = ['$domain']