diff --git a/Lib/site.py b/Lib/site.py
index e27174e4d0a..6b6b3ca9dff 100644
--- a/Lib/site.py
+++ b/Lib/site.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 Unix, it starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and
 appends lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python.
 On other platforms (mainly Mac and Windows), it uses just sys.prefix
-\(and sys.exec_prefix, if different, but this is unlikely).  The
+(and sys.exec_prefix, if different, but this is unlikely).  The
 resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and
 also inspected for path configuration files.