diff --git a/numpy/add_newdocs.py b/numpy/add_newdocs.py
index 1cf0315463a8..05904461c0a1 100644
--- a/numpy/add_newdocs.py
+++ b/numpy/add_newdocs.py
@@ -4445,7 +4445,7 @@ def luf(lamdaexpr, *args, **kwargs):
     Examples
     --------
     >>> a = np.array([3, 4, 2, 1])
-    >>> a.partition(a, 3)
+    >>> a.partition(3)
     >>> a
     array([2, 1, 3, 4])