diff --git a/docs/TUTORIAL.md b/docs/TUTORIAL.md
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@@ -38,17 +38,7 @@ updates](../tuf/ATTACKS.md).
 The [repository tool](../tuf/repository_tool.py) contains functions to generate
 all of the files needed to populate and manage a TUF repository.  The tool may
 either be imported into a Python module, or used with the Python interpreter in
-interactive mode.  For instance, here is an example of initializing a TUF
-repository in interactive mode:
-
-```Bash
-$ python
-Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:08:41)
-[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
-Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
->>> from tuf.repository_tool import *
->>> repo = create_new_repository("my_repo")
-```
+interactive mode.
 
 A repository object that encapsulates the metadata files of the repository can
 be created or loaded by the repository tool.  Repository maintainers can modify