diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 17424256a22..ba148430f1b 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -7680,7 +7680,7 @@ unicode_rsplit(PyUnicodeObject *self, PyObject *args)
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(splitlines__doc__,
-"S.splitlines([keepends]]) -> list of strings\n\
+"S.splitlines([keepends]) -> list of strings\n\
 \n\
 Return a list of the lines in S, breaking at line boundaries.\n\
 Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless keepends\n\