diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 586cec3..ee623a7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ it doesn't print the whole traceback, so a different handler is called). This
 was discovered as I was trying to stop autoindentation from occurring on a
 SyntaxError, which has also been fixed.
 
+'.' now in sys.path on startup.
+
 v0.7.0
 ======
 C-d behaviour changed so it no longer exits if the current line isn't empty.
diff --git a/bpython/cli.py b/bpython/cli.py
index c27bc19..8bfaf3b 100644
--- a/bpython/cli.py
+++ b/bpython/cli.py
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ class Repl(object):
         self.list_win_visible = False
         self._C = {}
         sys.stdin = FakeStdin(self)
+        sys.path.insert(0, '.')
 
         if not OPTS.arg_spec:
             return