diff --git a/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx b/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx
index 87cb18e0e3a..894c04c5ad0 100644
--- a/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx
+++ b/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ cdef class ParquetWriterOptionsBuilder:
 
     cpdef ParquetWriterOptionsBuilder compression(self, compression_type compression):
         """
-        Sets Key-Value footer metadata.
+        Sets compression type.
 
         Parameters
         ----------