diff --git a/python/pyarrow/feather.py b/python/pyarrow/feather.py
index 0a3aa9f782930..7e58978d11364 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/feather.py
+++ b/python/pyarrow/feather.py
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ def check_chunked_overflow(name, col):
 
 def write_feather(df, dest, compression=None, compression_level=None,
                   chunksize=None, version=2, use_threads=True):
-    """Write a pandas.DataFrame to Feather format.
+    """
+    Write a pandas.DataFrame to Feather format.
 
     Parameters
     ----------