diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst
index 3864f0d2250..b3d765c5ef2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/readline.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ sessions, by only appending the new history. ::
 
    import atexit
    import os
-   import realine
+   import readline
    histfile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".python_history")
 
    try: