diff --git a/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py b/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
index 8922b137fd1..62d89f8b001 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/versionpredicate.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def __init__(self, versionPredicateStr):
                 raise ValueError("empty parenthesized list in %r" 
                                  % versionPredicateStr)
         else:
-            self.pred=[]
+            self.pred = []
 
     def __str__(self):
         if self.pred: