diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
index d074ebb..f0bf841 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@
 support this as well as dictionary, for which :keyword:`in` tests whether a the
 dictionary has a given key. For container types such as list, tuple, set,
 frozenset, dict, or collections.deque, the expression ``x in y`` is equivalent
-to ``any(x is e or x == e for val e in y)``.
+to ``any(x is e or x == e for e in y)``.
 
 For the string and bytes types, ``x in y`` is true if and only if *x* is a
 substring of *y*.  An equivalent test is ``y.find(x) != -1``.  Empty strings are