diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index e10a5a4..6c80c77 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
     name=Somebody+Here&language=Python&location=Northampton
     >>> url = 'http://www.example.com/example.cgi'
     >>> full_url = url + '?' + url_values
-    >>> data = urllib2.open(full_url)
+    >>> data = urllib2.urlopen(full_url)
 
 Notice that the full URL is created by adding a ``?`` to the URL, followed by
 the encoded values.