diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index bd347e6448f1a0..5846d784c88ccc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -845,7 +845,6 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
 
    def quantify(iterable, pred=bool):
        "Given a predicate that returns True or False, count the True results."
-       "Count how many times the predicate is True"
        return sum(map(pred, iterable))
 
    def all_equal(iterable):