diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 6521b4bee50758..861c221502ed4d 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ type of the target ``e`` is consistently :exc:`BaseExceptionGroup`::
    ... except* BlockingIOError as e:
    ...     print(repr(e))
    ...
-   ExceptionGroup('', (BlockingIOError()))
+   ExceptionGroup('', (BlockingIOError(),))
 
 :keyword:`break`, :keyword:`continue` and :keyword:`return`
 cannot appear in an :keyword:`!except*` clause.