diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/mysql/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/mysql/__init__.py
index 1ae40008d8..0528e9a576 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/mysql/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-mysql/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/mysql/__init__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 
 For example,
 ::
+
    Invoking cursor.execute("INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)") will lead to sql query "INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123)" but when SQLCommenter is enabled
    the query will get appended with some configurable tags like "INSERT INTO test (testField) VALUES (123) /*tag=value*/;"