1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
index 2298df59..e015a545 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial/1-serialization.md
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ The root of our API is going to be a view that supports listing all the existing
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return JSONResponse(serializer.data, status=201)
-            return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
+            else:
+                return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
 
 Note that because we want to be able to POST to this view from clients that won't have a CSRF token we need to mark the view as `csrf_exempt`.  This isn't something that you'd normally want to do, and REST framework views actually use more sensible behavior than this, but it'll do for our purposes right now. 
 
@@ -289,7 +290,8 @@ We'll also need a view which corresponds to an individual snippet, and can be us
             if serializer.is_valid():
                 serializer.save()
                 return JSONResponse(serializer.data)
-            return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
+            else:
+                return JSONResponse(serializer.errors, status=400)
 
         elif request.method == 'DELETE':
             snippet.delete()