diff --git a/dev-python/expandvars/expandvars-0.12.0.recipe b/dev-python/expandvars/expandvars-0.12.0.recipe
index 49e16f7bb..25a89ce19 100644
--- a/dev-python/expandvars/expandvars-0.12.0.recipe
+++ b/dev-python/expandvars/expandvars-0.12.0.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SUMMARY="Expand system variables, Unix style"
-DESCRIPTION="This module is inspired by GNU bash's variable expansion features. \
+DESCRIPTION="This module is inspired by GNU bash's variable expansion features.
 It can be used as an alternative to Python's os.path.expandvars function.
 
 A good use case is reading config files with the flexibility of reading values from \