diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 3375f64d94d251..39a8b43826a2fa 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -3222,7 +3222,7 @@ place, and instead produce new objects.
 
    Return a copy of the sequence left filled with ASCII ``b'0'`` digits to
    make a sequence of length *width*. A leading sign prefix (``b'+'``/
-   ``b'-'`` is handled by inserting the padding *after* the sign character
+   ``b'-'``) is handled by inserting the padding *after* the sign character
    rather than before. For :class:`bytes` objects, the original sequence is
    returned if *width* is less than or equal to ``len(seq)``.