diff --git a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
index 80a4303509..13399f59f7 100644
--- a/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/django-admin.txt
@@ -1900,5 +1900,5 @@ Output redirection
 Note that you can redirect standard output and error streams as all commands
 support the ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` options. For example, you could write::
 
-    with open('/path/to/command_output') as f:
+    with open('/path/to/command_output', 'w') as f:
         management.call_command('dumpdata', stdout=f)