diff --git a/Doc/library/uuid.rst b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
index 8351946..7dc46ac 100644
--- a/Doc/library/uuid.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/uuid.rst
@@ -222,34 +222,34 @@
 
    >>> import uuid
 
-   # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time
+   >>> # make a UUID based on the host ID and current time
    >>> uuid.uuid1()
    UUID('a8098c1a-f86e-11da-bd1a-00112444be1e')
 
-   # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
+   >>> # make a UUID using an MD5 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
    >>> uuid.uuid3(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')
    UUID('6fa459ea-ee8a-3ca4-894e-db77e160355e')
 
-   # make a random UUID
+   >>> # make a random UUID
    >>> uuid.uuid4()
    UUID('16fd2706-8baf-433b-82eb-8c7fada847da')
 
-   # make a UUID using a SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
+   >>> # make a UUID using a SHA-1 hash of a namespace UUID and a name
    >>> uuid.uuid5(uuid.NAMESPACE_DNS, 'python.org')
    UUID('886313e1-3b8a-5372-9b90-0c9aee199e5d')
 
-   # make a UUID from a string of hex digits (braces and hyphens ignored)
+   >>> # make a UUID from a string of hex digits (braces and hyphens ignored)
    >>> x = uuid.UUID('{00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f}')
 
-   # convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form
+   >>> # convert a UUID to a string of hex digits in standard form
    >>> str(x)
    '00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f'
 
-   # get the raw 16 bytes of the UUID
+   >>> # get the raw 16 bytes of the UUID
    >>> x.bytes
    b'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08\t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x0e\x0f'
 
-   # make a UUID from a 16-byte string
+   >>> # make a UUID from a 16-byte string
    >>> uuid.UUID(bytes=x.bytes)
    UUID('00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f')