diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index aa1075d4b02..21da4f63871 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@ to speed up repeated connections from the same clients.
 
       import socket, ssl
 
-      context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
+      context = ssl.SSLContext()
       context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
       context.check_hostname = True
       context.load_default_certs()
@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ If you prefer to tune security settings yourself, you might create
 a context from scratch (but beware that you might not get the settings
 right)::
 
-   >>> context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS)
+   >>> context = ssl.SSLContext()
    >>> context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
    >>> context.check_hostname = True
    >>> context.load_verify_locations("/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt")