diff --git a/Doc/library/os.path.rst b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
index 7aac5c444d7..92f48cfbd25 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.path.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.path.rst
@@ -320,5 +320,4 @@ applications should use string objects to access all files.
 .. data:: supports_unicode_filenames
 
    True if arbitrary Unicode strings can be used as file names (within limitations
-   imposed by the file system), and if :func:`os.listdir` returns strings that
-   contain characters that cannot be represented by ASCII.
+   imposed by the file system).