diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -391,17 +391,17 @@ Querying the error indicator
    value and traceback object may be *NULL* even when the type object is not.
 
    .. note::
 
       This function is normally only used by code that needs to catch exceptions or
       by code that needs to save and restore the error indicator temporarily, e.g.::
 
          {
-            PyObject **type, **value, **traceback;
+            PyObject *type, *value, *traceback;
             PyErr_Fetch(&type, &value, &traceback);
 
             /* ... code that might produce other errors ... */
 
             PyErr_Restore(type, value, traceback);
          }