diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index 3990c0756dd..28af893648b 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -1815,7 +1815,7 @@ Subclasses of :class:`Command` must define the following methods.
 .. module:: distutils.command.bdist_msi
    :synopsis: Build a binary distribution as a Windows MSI file
 
-.. class:: bdist_msi(Command)
+.. class:: bdist_msi
 
    Builds a `Windows Installer`_ (.msi) binary package.
 
diff --git a/Modules/threadmodule.c b/Modules/threadmodule.c
index 79e6babcd19..4e41085ed92 100644
--- a/Modules/threadmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/threadmodule.c
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ thread_PyThread_exit_thread(PyObject *self)
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(exit_doc,
 "exit()\n\
-(PyThread_exit_thread() is an obsolete synonym)\n\
+(exit_thread() is an obsolete synonym)\n\
 \n\
 This is synonymous to ``raise SystemExit''.  It will cause the current\n\
 thread to exit silently unless the exception is caught.");