diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ae63f0f81d..e83fdd0ad2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ If you are not using the Federation, you can simply import rules_python
 directly and call its initialization methods as follows:
 
 ```python
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
 http_archive(
     name = "rules_python",
     url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/releases/download/0.0.1/rules_python-0.0.1.tar.gz",