diff --git a/docs/topics/exceptions.rst b/docs/topics/exceptions.rst
index 09cb8ed66..967fa8580 100644
--- a/docs/topics/exceptions.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/exceptions.rst
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ CloseSpider
 For example::
 
     def parse_page(self, response):
-        if 'Bandwidth exceeded' in response.body:
+        if 'Bandwidth exceeded' in response.text:
             raise CloseSpider('bandwidth_exceeded')
 
 DontCloseSpider