diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs_test.yml b/.github/workflows/docs_test.yml
index 24e1ca536..52c66bc0c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs_test.yml
@@ -39,4 +39,25 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build the docs
         working-directory: docs
-        run: make html
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+        run: make html
+
+      - name: Run Python snippets
+        run: |
+            python -c '
+            from docutils.core import publish_doctree
+            from docutils import nodes
+            from docutils.parsers.rst import roles
+
+            def dummy_role(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options=None, content=None):
+                return [nodes.Text(text)], []
+
+            roles.register_local_role("doc", dummy_role)
+
+            rst = open("docs/source/user/first_mcdc.rst").read()
+
+            for node in publish_doctree(rst).findall(nodes.literal_block):
+                if node.get("classes") == ["code", "python3"]:
+                    print(node.astext())
+            '  > tmp.py
+            cat -n tmp.py
+            python tmp.py
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diff --git a/docs/source/user/first_mcdc.rst b/docs/source/user/first_mcdc.rst
index 5c1d1ad92..ed76bd50f 100644
--- a/docs/source/user/first_mcdc.rst
+++ b/docs/source/user/first_mcdc.rst
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ and GPUs (AMD and Nvidia) and supports threading with MPI (Python or compiled mo
 Other guides are included to execute in these modes but for the sake of this first
 MC/DC simulation we will simply execute in Python mode (slower, no acceleration) simply with
 
-.. code-block:: python3
+.. code-block:: bash
 
     python input.py