diff --git a/docs/source/guide_developer.rst b/docs/source/guide_developer.rst
index 52656f21039720900c0d51352214c357347a6f0d..092db164cc4721b480ac51abf5a5bbb51bd56f3d 100644
--- a/docs/source/guide_developer.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guide_developer.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Then we should see something like the following (although without the formatting
 Using Python
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-We can duplicate the cURL request above in Python like this:
+We can duplicate the cURL request above in Python 3. Creating a new Python file (e.g. *api-test.py*) with the following contents:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ We can duplicate the cURL request above in Python like this:
    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
    print(response)
 
+We can run this example using:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ python api-test.py
+
 Which should display the same output as we saw with cURL.