diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
index 3ee9127..9b76110 100644
--- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex
+++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
@@ -2873,7 +2873,7 @@
 \begin{verbatim}
 >>> f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'r+')
 >>> f.write('0123456789abcdef')
->>> f.seek(5)     # Go to the 5th byte in the file
+>>> f.seek(5)     # Go to the 6th byte in the file
 >>> f.read(1)        
 '5'
 >>> f.seek(-3, 2) # Go to the 3rd byte before the end