diff --git a/bindings/pyroot/src/TPython.cxx b/bindings/pyroot/src/TPython.cxx
index 4f6e1e978a5a85a61253f4cd54190fed2d712444..deced7b4ebfadec7ef829574e4ecc03b86487854 100644
--- a/bindings/pyroot/src/TPython.cxx
+++ b/bindings/pyroot/src/TPython.cxx
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Bool_t TPython::Initialize()
       PyEval_InitThreads();
       Py_Initialize();
 
-   // try again to initialize the interpreter
+   // try again to see if the interpreter is initialized
       if ( ! Py_IsInitialized() ) {
       // give up ...
          std::cerr << "Error: python has not been intialized; returning." << std::endl;