diff --git a/tutorials/introductory/pyplot.py b/tutorials/introductory/pyplot.py
index a7ccab016b93..efe6cc18f2ba 100644
--- a/tutorials/introductory/pyplot.py
+++ b/tutorials/introductory/pyplot.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #
 # :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.plot` is a versatile command, and will take
 # an arbitrary number of arguments.  For example, to plot x versus y,
-# you can issue the command::
+# you can issue the command:
 
 plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 4, 9, 16])