diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index c89d3d4b082..b208ba46d17 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`:
    column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple ``(erow, ecol)`` of
    ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source; and
    the line on which the token was found. The line passed (the last tuple item)
-   is the *physical* line; continuation lines are included.  The 5 tuple is
-   returned as a :term:`named tuple` with the field names:
+   is the *physical* line.  The 5 tuple is returned as a :term:`named tuple`
+   with the field names:
    ``type string start end line``.
 
    The returned :term:`named tuple` has an additional property named
diff --git a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
index 0f9fde3fb0d..7924ff3cd58 100644
--- a/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/lib2to3/pgen2/tokenize.py
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def generate_tokens(readline):
     column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple (erow, ecol) of
     ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source;
     and the line on which the token was found. The line passed is the
-    physical line; continuation lines are included.
+    physical line.
     """
     lnum = parenlev = continued = 0
     contstr, needcont = '', 0
diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index 738fb71d188..1aee21b5e18 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ def tokenize(readline):
     column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple (erow, ecol) of
     ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source;
     and the line on which the token was found.  The line passed is the
-    physical line; continuation lines are included.
+    physical line.
 
     The first token sequence will always be an ENCODING token
     which tells you which encoding was used to decode the bytes stream.