diff --git a/Objects/cellobject.c b/Objects/cellobject.c
index ec2eeb1a855b63..823f3c91044c78 100644
--- a/Objects/cellobject.c
+++ b/Objects/cellobject.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(cell_new_doc,
 "\n"
 "  contents\n"
 "    the contents of the cell. If not specified, the cell will be empty,\n"
-"    and \n further attempts to access its cell_contents attribute will\n"
+"    and further attempts to access its cell_contents attribute will\n"
 "    raise a ValueError.");