diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
index 34c469bfc535b..eb0a9c6f60efb 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
@@ -5280,24 +5280,21 @@ Write to a parquet file.
 
 .. ipython:: python
 
-   df.to_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow")
-   df.to_parquet("example_fp.parquet", engine="fastparquet")
+   # specify engine="pyarrow" or engine="fastparquet" to use a specific engine
+   df.to_parquet("example.parquet")
 
 Read from a parquet file.
 
 .. ipython:: python
 
-   result = pd.read_parquet("example_fp.parquet", engine="fastparquet")
-   result = pd.read_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow")
-
+   result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet")
    result.dtypes
 
 By setting the ``dtype_backend`` argument you can control the default dtypes used for the resulting DataFrame.
 
 .. ipython:: python
 
-   result = pd.read_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow", dtype_backend="pyarrow")
-
+   result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet", dtype_backend="pyarrow")
    result.dtypes
 
 .. note::
@@ -5309,24 +5306,14 @@ Read only certain columns of a parquet file.
 
 .. ipython:: python
 
-   result = pd.read_parquet(
-       "example_fp.parquet",
-       engine="fastparquet",
-       columns=["a", "b"],
-   )
-   result = pd.read_parquet(
-       "example_pa.parquet",
-       engine="pyarrow",
-       columns=["a", "b"],
-   )
+   result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet", columns=["a", "b"])
    result.dtypes
 
 
 .. ipython:: python
    :suppress:
 
-   os.remove("example_pa.parquet")
-   os.remove("example_fp.parquet")
+   os.remove("example.parquet")
 
 
 Handling indexes