diff --git a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNode.py b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNode.py
index 6c2aff98c9..656bb7a917 100644
--- a/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNode.py
+++ b/direct/src/distributed/DistributedSmoothNode.py
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ def activateSmoothing(smoothing, prediction):
 
 
 class DistributedSmoothNode(DistributedNode.DistributedNode,
-                            DistributedSmoothNodeBase.\
-                            DistributedSmoothNodeBase):
+                            DistributedSmoothNodeBase.DistributedSmoothNodeBase):
     """DistributedSmoothNode class:
 
     This specializes DistributedNode to add functionality to smooth