diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
index d92b10e..c3170c0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@
 Skipping a test is simply a matter of using the :func:`skip` :term:`decorator`
 or one of its conditional variants.
 
-Basic skipping looks like this: ::
+Basic skipping looks like this::
 
    class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
            # windows specific testing code
            pass
 
-This is the output of running the example above in verbose mode: ::
+This is the output of running the example above in verbose mode::
 
    test_format (__main__.MyTestCase) ... skipped 'not supported in this library version'
    test_nothing (__main__.MyTestCase) ... skipped 'demonstrating skipping'
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
 
    OK (skipped=3)
 
-Classes can be skipped just like methods: ::
+Classes can be skipped just like methods::
 
    @unittest.skip("showing class skipping")
    class MySkippedTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
 
 It's easy to roll your own skipping decorators by making a decorator that calls
 :func:`skip` on the test when it wants it to be skipped.  This decorator skips
-the test unless the passed object has a certain attribute: ::
+the test unless the passed object has a certain attribute::
 
    def skipUnlessHasattr(obj, attr):
        if hasattr(obj, attr):