diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/language/pip.py b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/language/pip.py
index 3fc7abc4145..5863d770f4f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/language/pip.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/language/pip.py
@@ -100,11 +100,10 @@ options:
         useful, for example, when installing on systems that have a very
         restrictive umask by default (e.g., "0077") and you want to pip install
         packages which are to be used by all users. Note that this requires you
-        to specify desired umask mode as an octal string, with a leading 0
-        (e.g., "0022").  Specifying the mode as a decimal integer (e.g., 22)
-        will also work, but an octal integer (e.g., 0022) will be converted to
-        decimal (18) before evaluation, which is almost certainly not what was
-        intended.
+        to specify desired umask mode as an octal string, (e.g., "0022").
+        Specifying the mode as a decimal integer (e.g., 22) will also work, but
+        an octal integer (e.g., 0022) will be converted to decimal (18) before
+        evaluation, which is almost certainly not what was intended.
     version_added: "2.1"
 notes:
    - Please note that virtualenv (U(http://www.virtualenv.org/)) must be