diff --git a/pep-0433.txt b/pep-0433.txt
index 07c2b5880..491a49375 100644
--- a/pep-0433.txt
+++ b/pep-0433.txt
@@ -230,7 +230,8 @@ Add a new command line option ``-e`` and an environment variable
 ``pass_fds`` parameter.
 
 All functions creating file descriptors in the standard library must
-respect the default *cloexec* parameter (``sys.getdefaultcloexec()``).
+respect the default value of the *cloexec* parameter:
+``sys.getdefaultcloexec()``.
 
 File descriptors 0 (stdin), 1 (stdout) and 2 (stderr) are expected to be
 inherited, but Python does not handle them differently. When