diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Normal usage is rather straightforward (where ``text`` is page text)::
     >>> wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(text)
 
 ``wikicode`` is a ``mwparserfromhell.Wikicode`` object, which acts like an
-ordinary ``unicode`` object (or ``str`` in Python 3) with some extra methods.
+ordinary ``str`` object (or ``unicode`` in Python 2) with some extra methods.
 For example::
 
     >>> text = "I has a template! {{foo|bar|baz|eggs=spam}} See it?"