diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
index 748b7040325..e5000532a89 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-subprocess.rst
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ their completion.
       Use the :meth:`communicate` method rather than
       :attr:`process.stdin.write() <stdin>`,
       :attr:`await process.stdout.read() <stdout>` or
-      :attr:`await process.stderr.read <stderr>`.
+      :attr:`await process.stderr.read() <stderr>`.
       This avoids deadlocks due to streams pausing reading or writing
       and blocking the child process.