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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index ff7687c..b12ce4b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ find all of the adverbs in some text, they might use :func:`findall` in
the following manner::
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
- >>> re.findall(r"\w+ly", text)
+ >>> re.findall(r"\w+ly\b", text)
['carefully', 'quickly']
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ a writer wanted to find all of the adverbs *and their positions* in
some text, they would use :func:`finditer` in the following manner::
>>> text = "He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
- >>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly", text):
+ >>> for m in re.finditer(r"\w+ly\b", text):
... print('%02d-%02d: %s' % (m.start(), m.end(), m.group(0)))
07-16: carefully
40-47: quickly