diff --git a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
index 65f76b8bb80..0af8fb15b36 100644
--- a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ byte-code cache files in the directory containing the source code.
 .. function:: compile(file, cfile=None, dfile=None, doraise=False, optimize=-1)
 
    Compile a source file to byte-code and write out the byte-code cache file.
-   The source code is loaded from the file name *file*.  The byte-code is
+   The source code is loaded from the file named *file*.  The byte-code is
    written to *cfile*, which defaults to the :pep:`3147`/:pep:`488` path, ending
    in ``.pyc``.
    For example, if *file* is ``/foo/bar/baz.py`` *cfile* will default to