diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
index 99e5d43b2..1cfe9cc9d 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/basic.tmpl
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import scrapy
 
 
 class $classname(scrapy.Spider):
-    name = "$name"
-    allowed_domains = ["$domain"]
+    name = '$name'
+    allowed_domains = ['$domain']
     start_urls = ['http://$domain/']
 
     def parse(self, response):