diff --git a/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md b/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md
index 4ff549f07..26344536b 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/generic-views.md
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ For more complex cases you might also want to override various methods on the vi
 
 For very simple cases you might want to pass through any class attributes using the `.as_view()` method.  For example, your URLconf might include something like the following entry:
 
-    url(r'^/users/', ListCreateAPIView.as_view(queryset=User.objects.all(), serializer_class=UserSerializer), name='user-list')
+    path('/users/', ListCreateAPIView.as_view(queryset=User.objects.all(), serializer_class=UserSerializer), name='user-list')
 
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