diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 9b3f1c12206..a553d09964e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream.
    A common use for *repeat* is to supply a stream of constant values to *imap*
    or *zip*::
 
-      >>> list(imap(pow, range(10), repeat(2)))
+      >>> list(imap(pow, xrange(10), repeat(2)))
       [0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
 
 .. function:: starmap(function, iterable)