diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 19c7f4127cffc2..1df2148cbb9ebc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2305,7 +2305,7 @@ data and are closely related to string objects in a variety of other ways.
    While bytes literals and representations are based on ASCII text, bytes
    objects actually behave like immutable sequences of integers, with each
    value in the sequence restricted such that ``0 <= x < 256`` (attempts to
-   violate this restriction will trigger :exc:`ValueError`. This is done
+   violate this restriction will trigger :exc:`ValueError`). This is done
    deliberately to emphasise that while many binary formats include ASCII based
    elements and can be usefully manipulated with some text-oriented algorithms,
    this is not generally the case for arbitrary binary data (blindly applying