#4404: make clear what "path" is.
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 14784fa..1cb450b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -933,10 +933,10 @@
.. function:: listdir(path)
- Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory. The list is
- in arbitrary order. It does not include the special entries ``'.'`` and
- ``'..'`` even if they are present in the directory. Availability:
- Unix, Windows.
+ Return a list containing the names of the entries in the directory given by
+ *path*. The list is in arbitrary order. It does not include the special
+ entries ``'.'`` and ``'..'`` even if they are present in the
+ directory. Availability: Unix, Windows.
.. versionchanged:: 2.3
On Windows NT/2k/XP and Unix, if *path* is a Unicode object, the result will be