diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 9d606626f79..b43d9a9c9d2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -1116,10 +1116,10 @@ programmatically-supplied proxy URLs, and adds proxy authorization support with
 :class:`ProxyBasicAuthHandler`. ::
 
    proxy_handler = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://www.example.com:3128/'})
-   proxy_auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
+   proxy_auth_handler = urllib.request.ProxyBasicAuthHandler()
    proxy_auth_handler.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')
 
-   opener = build_opener(proxy_handler, proxy_auth_handler)
+   opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_handler, proxy_auth_handler)
    # This time, rather than install the OpenerDirector, we use it directly:
    opener.open('http://www.example.com/login.html')