From 85c4ecb92856f7d50f8dbf7c92d629bd5db83f02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Ruhland <felipe.ruhland@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 13:00:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Removed validation of project_name dir exists

---
 scrapy/commands/startproject.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
index c0e7af88a..a51a586ab 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         if not re.search(r'^[_a-zA-Z]\w*$', project_name):
             print('Error: Project names must begin with a letter and contain'\
                     ' only\nletters, numbers and underscores')
-        elif exists(project_name):
-            print('Error: Directory %r already exists' % project_name)
         elif _module_exists(project_name):
             print('Error: Module %r already exists' % project_name)
         else: