diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 9ef62d414edb9a..66863f1cd033e3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    Return ``True`` if all characters in the string are alphanumeric and there is at
    least one character, ``False`` otherwise.  A character ``c`` is alphanumeric if one
    of the following returns ``True``: ``c.isalpha()``, ``c.isdecimal()``,
-   ``c.isdigit()``, or ``c.isnumeric()``. For example::
+   ``c.isdigit()``, or ``c.isnumeric()``. For example:
 
    .. doctest::