diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 45766a7b3f5..9d5804e7ed6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ an :term:`importer`.
         suffixes = importlib.machinery.SOURCE_SUFFIXES
         loader = importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader
         lazy_loader = importlib.util.LazyLoader.factory(loader)
-        finder = importlib.machinery.FileFinder(path, [(lazy_loader, suffixes)])
+        finder = importlib.machinery.FileFinder(path, (lazy_loader, suffixes))
 
 .. _importlib-examples: