Do not use \verb in the Python documentation -- it makes parsing the LaTeX
sources more difficult and other tools do not always work well with it.
Since we have better markup for this case, just fix it.
diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index 65583b0..dd2b971 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -605,9 +605,9 @@
 \command{build\_py}, \command{install}), and \var{option} is one of the
 options that command supports.  Any number of options can be supplied
 for each command, and any number of command sections can be included in
-the file.  Blank lines are ignored, as are comments (from a \verb+#+
-character to end-of-line).  Long option values can be split across
-multiple lines simply by indenting the continuation lines.
+the file.  Blank lines are ignored, as are comments (from a
+\character{\#} character to end-of-line).  Long option values can be
+split across multiple lines simply by indenting the continuation lines.
 
 You can find out the list of options supported by a particular command
 with the universal \longprogramopt{help} option, e.g.