diff --git a/docs/user/advanced.rst b/docs/user/advanced.rst
index 1ffd778d..cb35215b 100644
--- a/docs/user/advanced.rst
+++ b/docs/user/advanced.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Let's persist some cookies across requests::
     s.get('http://httpbin.org/cookies/set/sessioncookie/123456789')
     r = s.get("http://httpbin.org/cookies")
 
-    print r.content
+    print r.text
     # '{"cookies": {"sessioncookie": "123456789"}}'