diff --git a/Doc/library/difflib.rst b/Doc/library/difflib.rst
index 8b812c173b5953..25edb40e35a630 100644
--- a/Doc/library/difflib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/difflib.rst
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ Finally, we compare the two:
 
    >>> result = list(d.compare(text1, text2))
 
-``result`` is a list of strings, so let's pretty-print it:
+``result`` is a list of strings, so let's pretty-print it::
 
    >>> from pprint import pprint
    >>> pprint(result)
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ Finally, we compare the two:
     '?           ++++ ^                      ^\n',
     '+   5. Flat is better than nested.\n']
 
-As a single multi-line string it looks like this:
+As a single multi-line string it looks like this::
 
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.stdout.writelines(result)