diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
index 1cf2e963e0e..3a616883bee 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ def create_exe(self, arcname, fullname, bitmap=None):
                 # convert back to bytes. "latin-1" simply avoids any possible
                 # failures.
                 with open(self.pre_install_script, "r",
-                    encoding="latin-1") as script:
+                          encoding="latin-1") as script:
                     script_data = script.read().encode("latin-1")
                 cfgdata = cfgdata + script_data + b"\n\0"
             else: