diff --git a/Doc/howto/argparse.rst b/Doc/howto/argparse.rst
index eed6a5fdb01..449f7cd96f0 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/argparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/argparse.rst
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ to display *more* text instead::
    if args.verbosity >= 2:
        print "Running '{}'".format(__file__)
    if args.verbosity >= 1:
-       print "{}^{} == ".format(args.x, args.y), end=""
+       print "{}^{} ==".format(args.x, args.y),
    print answer
 
 Output: