From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:02:29 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: gh-138011: Clarify tutorial method object example code (#138014)
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gh-138011: Clarify tutorial method object example code (#138014)

x must be a MyClass instance for examples to work.

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Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index fa964271d79b..9ab003d5cd3d 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ Usually, a method is called right after it is bound::
 
    x.f()
 
-In the :class:`!MyClass` example, this will return the string ``'hello world'``.
+If ``x = MyClass()``, as above, this will return the string ``'hello world'``.
 However, it is not necessary to call a method right away: ``x.f`` is a method
 object, and can be stored away and called at a later time.  For example::