diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
index 5ee11d58c3dd26..7731f03d875efc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.sax.utils.rst
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ or as base classes.
 
    You can unescape other strings of data by passing a dictionary as the optional
    *entities* parameter.  The keys and values must all be strings; each key will be
-   replaced with its corresponding value.  ``'&amp'``, ``'<'``, and ``'>'``
+   replaced with its corresponding value.  ``'&'``, ``'<'``, and ``'>'``
    are always unescaped, even if *entities* is provided.