diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 1c8c190fc87..6b23d3f2545 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ Sequences
 
          A bytes object is an immutable array.  The items are 8-bit bytes,
          represented by integers in the range 0 <= x < 256.  Bytes literals
-         (like ``b'abc'`` and the built-in function :func:`bytes` can be used to
+         (like ``b'abc'``) and the built-in function :func:`bytes` can be used to
          construct bytes objects.  Also, bytes objects can be decoded to strings
          via the :meth:`decode` method.