diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 192f4caee..18a0ae23f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Request objects
 
     :param body: the request body. If a ``unicode`` is passed, then it's encoded to
       ``str`` using the `encoding` passed (which defaults to ``utf-8``). If
-      ``body`` is not given,, an empty string is stored. Regardless of the
+      ``body`` is not given, an empty string is stored. Regardless of the
       type of this argument, the final value stored will be a ``str`` (never
       ``unicode`` or ``None``).
     :type body: str or unicode