diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 3e82000466432f9..96921440edea11a 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1488,7 +1488,6 @@ def open_local_file(self, req):
                     origurl = 'file://' + filename
                 return addinfourl(open(localfile, 'rb'), headers, origurl)
         except OSError as exp:
-            # users shouldn't expect OSErrors coming from urlopen()
             raise URLError(exp)
         raise URLError('file not on local host')