diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
index f8c0a53e3dd7c1..2d6f61930cbe86 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst
@@ -1113,10 +1113,6 @@ api::
    >>> print(hex(version.value))
    0x30c00a0
 
-If the interpreter would have been started with :option:`-O`, the sample would
-have printed ``c_long(1)``, or ``c_long(2)`` if :option:`-OO` would have been
-specified.
-
 An extended example which also demonstrates the use of pointers accesses the
 :c:data:`PyImport_FrozenModules` pointer exported by Python.