diff --git a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
index cd4991aa85..7aa2eda157 100755
--- a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
+++ b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNodeBase.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class DistributedSmoothNodeBase:
             BT.XYH:  self.cnode.broadcastPosHprXyh,
             BT.XY:  self.cnode.broadcastPosHprXy,
             }
+        # this comment is here so it will show up in a grep for 'def d_broadcastPosHpr'
         self.d_broadcastPosHpr = broadcastFuncs[self.broadcastType]
         
         # Set stagger to non-zero to randomly delay the initial task execution