diff --git a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
index d68faee258..12a32c760f 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/shortcuts.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ This example is equivalent to::
         # View code here...
         t = loader.get_template('myapp/template.html')
         c = Context({'foo': 'bar'})
-        r = HttpResponse(t.render(c),
+        return HttpResponse(t.render(c),
             mimetype="application/xhtml+xml")
 
 ``get_object_or_404``