comma nit
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
index 1563bde..e9ff4d9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@
\item The inner loops for list and tuple slicing
were optimized and now run about one-third faster. The inner loops
- for dictionaries were also optimized , resulting in performance boosts for
+ for dictionaries were also optimized, resulting in performance boosts for
\method{keys()}, \method{values()}, \method{items()},
\method{iterkeys()}, \method{itervalues()}, and \method{iteritems()}.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)