diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index f45d461..89fd09b 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@
 Welcome to Python %s!  This is the online help utility.
 
 If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
-the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/.
+the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/%s/tutorial/.
 
 Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
 Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
@@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@
 "keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
 of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
 such as "spam", type "modules spam".
-''' % sys.version[:3])
+''' % tuple([sys.version[:3]]*2))
 
     def list(self, items, columns=4, width=80):
         items = list(sorted(items))