diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index 672324b..b29e590 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -372,9 +372,9 @@
     ...         print(x)
     ...     f = staticmethod(f)
     ...
-    >>> print(E.f(3))
+    >>> E.f(3)
     3
-    >>> print(E().f(3))
+    >>> E().f(3)
     3
 
 Using the non-data descriptor protocol, a pure Python version of