diff --git a/Lib/inspect.py b/Lib/inspect.py
index 9a843d6420e2e0..a44e8eb3ceb25e 100644
--- a/Lib/inspect.py
+++ b/Lib/inspect.py
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ def iscode(object):
         co_kwonlyargcount   number of keyword only arguments (not including ** arg)
         co_lnotab           encoded mapping of line numbers to bytecode indices
         co_name             name with which this code object was defined
-        co_names            tuple of names of local variables
+        co_names            tuple of names of global variables used in the bytecode
         co_nlocals          number of local variables
         co_stacksize        virtual machine stack space required
         co_varnames         tuple of names of arguments and local variables"""