diff --git a/Lib/pprint.py b/Lib/pprint.py
index e111bd59d4152c..a0e484b1c097c3 100644
--- a/Lib/pprint.py
+++ b/Lib/pprint.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def _pprint_dict(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level):
     def _pprint_frozendict(self, object, stream, indent, allowance, context, level):
         write = stream.write
         cls = object.__class__
-        stream.write(cls.__name__ + '(')
+        write(cls.__name__ + '(')
         length = len(object)
         if length:
             self._pprint_dict(object, stream,