diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index b8b32d5a415..7f478d7191d 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class StreamRecoder:
             conversion: encode and decode work on the frontend (the
             input to .read() and output of .write()) while 
             Reader and Writer work on the backend (reading and
-            writing to the the stream).
+            writing to the stream).
 
             You can use these objects to do transparent direct
             recodings from e.g. latin-1 to utf-8 and back.