diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 5abb767cb0a..30450c70f3e 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ Sometimes it is useful to have a data type similar to the Pascal "record" or C
 "struct", bundling together a few named data items. The idiomatic approach
 is to use :mod:`dataclasses` for this purpose::
 
-    from dataclasses import dataclasses
+    from dataclasses import dataclass
 
     @dataclass
     class Employee: