diff --git a/pep-0402.txt b/pep-0402.txt
index 0871bf244..522c65517 100644
--- a/pep-0402.txt
+++ b/pep-0402.txt
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ is, if ``foo`` and ``foo.bar`` are pure virtual packages, then
 ``import foo.bar.baz`` must wait until ``foo.bar.baz`` is found before
 creating module objects for *both* ``foo`` and ``foo.bar``, and then
 create both of them together, properly setting the ``foo`` module's
-``.bar`` attrbute to point to the ``foo.bar``module.
+``.bar`` attrbute to point to the ``foo.bar`` module.
 
 In this way, pure virtual packages are never directly importable:
 an ``import foo`` or ``import foo.bar`` by itself will fail, and the