diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
index 208cb9716ce..1ad0ef77eff 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
        >>> urlparse('//www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html')
        ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='www.cwi.nl:80', path='/%7Eguido/Python.html',
                   params='', query='', fragment='')
-       >>> urlparse('www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html')
+       >>> urlparse('www.cwi.nl/%7Eguido/Python.html')
        ParseResult(scheme='', netloc='', path='www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html',
                   params='', query='', fragment='')
        >>> urlparse('help/Python.html')