diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst b/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst
index 942794bcb..5cf7fabbb 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/docs/ref/request-response.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Request objects
     for the rest of the domain crawl, like any browser would do. Example::
 
         request_with_cookies = Request(url="http://www.example.com",
-                                       cookies={currency='USD, country='UY'})
+                                       cookies={currency: 'USD', country: 'UY'})
 
     ``encoding`` is a string with the encoding of this request. This encoding
     will be used to percent-encode the URL and to convert the body to str (when