diff --git a/Doc/library/difflib.rst b/Doc/library/difflib.rst
index ce948a6860f02c..2609ef03045144 100644
--- a/Doc/library/difflib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/difflib.rst
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ Finally, we compare the two:
 
    >>> result = list(d.compare(text1, text2))
 
-``result`` is a list of strings, so let's pretty-print it:
+``result`` is a list of strings, so let's pretty-print it::
 
    >>> from pprint import pprint
    >>> pprint(result)
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ Finally, we compare the two:
     '?           ++++ ^                      ^\n',
     '+   5. Flat is better than nested.\n']
 
-As a single multi-line string it looks like this:
+As a single multi-line string it looks like this::
 
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.stdout.writelines(result)
diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
index 1b1e9f479cbe08..2451f4fa32be79 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ subject value:
    If only keyword patterns are present, they are processed as follows,
    one by one:
 
-   I. The keyword is looked up as an attribute on the subject.
+   1. The keyword is looked up as an attribute on the subject.
 
       * If this raises an exception other than :exc:`AttributeError`, the
         exception bubbles up.
@@ -1120,13 +1120,13 @@ subject value:
         pattern fails; if this succeeds, the match proceeds to the next keyword.
 
 
-   II. If all keyword patterns succeed, the class pattern succeeds.
+   2. If all keyword patterns succeed, the class pattern succeeds.
 
    If any positional patterns are present, they are converted to keyword
    patterns using the :data:`~object.__match_args__` attribute on the class
    ``name_or_attr`` before matching:
 
-   I. The equivalent of ``getattr(cls, "__match_args__", ())`` is called.
+   1. The equivalent of ``getattr(cls, "__match_args__", ())`` is called.
 
       * If this raises an exception, the exception bubbles up.
 
@@ -1144,8 +1144,8 @@ subject value:
 
       .. seealso:: :ref:`class-pattern-matching`
 
-   II. Once all positional patterns have been converted to keyword patterns,
-       the match proceeds as if there were only keyword patterns.
+   2. Once all positional patterns have been converted to keyword patterns,
+      the match proceeds as if there were only keyword patterns.
 
    For the following built-in types the handling of positional subpatterns is
    different: