diff --git a/pyopencl/__init__.py b/pyopencl/__init__.py
index 29c511ab6d75e4e7d9b9ce2ec9a70920cb740312..c05cf74bc4fcc51448b6aee27648870e9cccb505 100644
--- a/pyopencl/__init__.py
+++ b/pyopencl/__init__.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ except ImportError:
     from os.path import dirname, join, realpath
     if realpath(join(os.getcwd(), "pyopencl")) == realpath(dirname(__file__)):
         from warnings import warn
-        warn ("It looks like you are importing PyOpenCL from the "
+        warn ("It looks like you are importing PyOpenCL from "
                 "its source directory. This likely won't work.")
     raise