diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/gotchas.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/gotchas.rst
index e0f6c7570074b..a96c70405d859 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/gotchas.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/gotchas.rst
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ Byte-ordering issues
 --------------------
 Occasionally you may have to deal with data that were created on a machine with
 a different byte order than the one on which you are running Python. A common
-symptom of this issue is an error like:::
+symptom of this issue is an error like::
 
     Traceback
         ...