diff --git a/Doc/library/functools.rst b/Doc/library/functools.rst
index f8ffb3f41d1210..8028cfc34d7e26 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functools.rst
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
         def factorial(n):
             return n * factorial(n-1) if n else 1
 
-        >>> factorial(10)      # no previously cached result, makes 11 recursive calls
+        >>> factorial(10)   # no previously cached result, makes 11 recursive calls
         3628800
-        >>> factorial(5)       # just looks up cached value result
+        >>> factorial(5)    # no new calls, just returns the cached result
         120
-        >>> factorial(12)      # makes two new recursive calls, the other 10 are cached
+        >>> factorial(12)   # two new recursive calls, factorial(10) is cached
         479001600
 
    The cache is threadsafe so that the wrapped function can be used in