diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.rst
index 25e4fa903246d3..9ec96967094e32 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The convenience functions are:
 
    Create and return a SAX :class:`~xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader` object.  The
    first parser found will
-   be used.  If *parser_list* is provided, it must be a sequence of strings which
+   be used.  If *parser_list* is provided, it must be a list of strings which
    name modules that have a function named :func:`create_parser`.  Modules listed
    in *parser_list* will be used before modules in the default list of parsers.