diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst
index 9e5cb554f0c..cd1915d03b5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/curses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.
       Tutorial material on using curses with Python, by Andrew Kuchling and Eric
       Raymond.
 
-   The :file:`Tools/demo/` directory in the Python source distribution contains
+   The :source:`Tools/demo/` directory in the Python source distribution contains
    some example programs using the curses bindings provided by this module.