diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst
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--- a/Doc/faq/general.rst
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@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@
    >>> L
    [1]
 
-With the interpreter, documentation is never far from the student as he's
+With the interpreter, documentation is never far from the student as they are
 programming.
 
 There are also good IDEs for Python.  IDLE is a cross-platform IDE for Python