diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/urllib/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/urllib/__init__.py
index 17bbfaf7b1..1fb9b0edfa 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/urllib/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/urllib/__init__.py
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ def uninstrument_opener(
         _uninstrument_from(opener, restore_as_bound_func=True)
 
 
+# pylint: disable=too-many-statements
 def _instrument(
     tracer,
     histograms: Dict[str, Histogram],