Fix verb tense.

diff --git a/Doc/library/base64.rst b/Doc/library/base64.rst
index ab85436cd6a97d834fcdf6c52f88ab8fd3b7703f..c9ce28b85bea66adfce8213c971840f5664ca8b8 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/base64.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/base64.rst
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The modern interface, which was introduced in Python 2.4, provides:
    digit 0 is always mapped to the letter O).  For security purposes the default is
    ``None``, so that 0 and 1 are not allowed in the input.
 
-   The decoded string is returned.  A :exc:`TypeError` is raised if *s* were
+   The decoded string is returned.  A :exc:`TypeError` is raised if *s* is
    incorrectly padded or if there are non-alphabet characters present in the
    string.