diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index 4c90433..5987679 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -264,9 +264,9 @@
 "\n"
 "* On output, if newline is None, any '\\n' characters written are\n"
 "  translated to the system default line separator, os.linesep. If\n"
-"  newline is '', no translation takes place. If newline is any of the\n"
-"  other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated to\n"
-"  the given string.\n"
+"  newline is '' or '\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
+"  of the other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated\n"
+"  to the given string.\n"
 "\n"
 "If closefd is False, the underlying file descriptor will be kept open\n"
 "when the file is closed. This does not work when a file name is given\n"
diff --git a/Modules/_io/textio.c b/Modules/_io/textio.c
index 518108b..2d516ee 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c
@@ -635,9 +635,9 @@
     "\n"
     "* On output, if newline is None, any '\\n' characters written are\n"
     "  translated to the system default line separator, os.linesep. If\n"
-    "  newline is '', no translation takes place. If newline is any of the\n"
-    "  other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated to\n"
-    "  the given string.\n"
+    "  newline is '' or '\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
+    "  of the other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated\n"
+    "  to the given string.\n"
     "\n"
     "If line_buffering is True, a call to flush is implied when a call to\n"
     "write contains a newline character."