diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 96b88b38039fa3..4b849770c1936a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    If the given source is a string, then leading and trailing spaces and tabs
    are stripped.
 
-   See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can safely evaluate strings
+   See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function to evaluate strings
    with expressions containing only literals.
 
    .. audit-event:: exec code_object eval