diff --git a/Doc/howto/logging.rst b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
index b7225ff1c2cbfc..454e2f4930e724 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/logging.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/logging.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ When to use logging
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 You can access logging functionality by creating a logger via ``logger =
-getLogger(__name__)``, and then calling the logger's :meth:`~Logger.debug`,
+logging.getLogger(__name__)``, and then calling the logger's :meth:`~Logger.debug`,
 :meth:`~Logger.info`, :meth:`~Logger.warning`, :meth:`~Logger.error` and
 :meth:`~Logger.critical` methods. To determine when to use logging, and to see
 which logger methods to use when, see the table below. It states, for each of a
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_external_inspection.py b/Lib/test/test_external_inspection.py
index 890aa584cd192c..ec7192b1b89184 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_external_inspection.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_external_inspection.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     requires_gil_enabled,
     requires_remote_subprocess_debugging,
 )
+from test.support.import_helper import import_module
 from test.support.script_helper import make_script
 from test.support.socket_helper import find_unused_port
 
@@ -529,6 +530,10 @@ def test_self_trace_after_ctypes_import(self):
         The remote debugging code must skip these uninitialized duplicate
         mappings and find the real PyRuntime. See gh-144563.
         """
+
+        # Skip the test if the _ctypes module is missing.
+        import_module("_ctypes")
+
         # Run the test in a subprocess to avoid side effects
         script = textwrap.dedent("""\
             import os