diff --git a/Doc/library/bz2.rst b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
index 277de601cb7b6f..aa836af2b257fd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/bz2.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/bz2.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ All of the classes in this module may safely be accessed from multiple threads.
 (De)compression of files
 ------------------------
 
-.. function:: open(filename, mode='r', compresslevel=9, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None)
+.. function:: open(filename, mode='rb', compresslevel=9, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None)
 
    Open a bzip2-compressed file in binary or text mode, returning a :term:`file
    object`.