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@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ printf
 
 The good thing about ``printf`` is that it is pretty fast and readily available
 being a part of the C standard library. The main drawback is that it
-doesn't support user-defined types. ``print`` also has safety issues although
+doesn't support user-defined types. ``printf`` also has safety issues although
 they are somewhat mitigated with `__attribute__ ((format (printf, ...))
 <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html>`_ in GCC.
 There is a POSIX extension that adds positional arguments required for