diff --git a/platform-includes/distributed-tracing/limiting-traces/python.mdx b/platform-includes/distributed-tracing/limiting-traces/python.mdx
index 63e189d10cd0e..02b20df5b4139 100644
--- a/platform-includes/distributed-tracing/limiting-traces/python.mdx
+++ b/platform-includes/distributed-tracing/limiting-traces/python.mdx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ sentry_sdk.init(
     dsn="___PUBLIC_DSN___",
     trace_propagation_targets=[
         "https://myproject.org",
-        "https://.*\.otherservice.org/.*",
+        r"https://.*\.otherservice.org/.*",
     ],
     # ...
 )