diff --git a/peps/pep-0101.rst b/peps/pep-0101.rst
index 7f0998ffcd5..b57b871ebe4 100644
--- a/peps/pep-0101.rst
+++ b/peps/pep-0101.rst
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ the main repo.
   do some post-merge cleanup.  Check the top-level ``README.rst``
   and ``include/patchlevel.h`` files to ensure they now reflect
   the desired post-release values for on-going development.
-  The patchlevel should be the release tag with a ``+``.
+  The patchlevel should be the release tag with a ``+dev``.
   Also, if you cherry-picked changes from the standard release
   branch into the release engineering branch for this release,
   you will now need to manually remove each blurb entry from