diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index 032d08009f4428..c7035bad4b6faa 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ roughly equivalent to:
 .. testcode::
 
     class MethodType:
-        "Emulate Py_MethodType in Objects/classobject.c"
+        "Emulate PyMethod_Type in Objects/classobject.c"
 
         def __init__(self, func, obj):
             self.__func__ = func