diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
index f41b26c8b3c..dafdd917c54 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ settings to be used as discussed above.  For example:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 # Use http://www.someproxy.com:3128 for http proxying
-proxies = proxies={'http': 'http://www.someproxy.com:3128'}
+proxies = {'http': 'http://www.someproxy.com:3128'}
 filehandle = urllib.urlopen(some_url, proxies=proxies)
 # Don't use any proxies
 filehandle = urllib.urlopen(some_url, proxies={})