diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index 2c57cc7ec42..680703d4483 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ Here is a simple example of a POINT structure, which contains two integers named
    >>> POINT(1, 2, 3)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
-   ValueError: too many initializers
+   TypeError: too many initializers
    >>>
 
 You can, however, build much more complicated structures.  A structure can