diff --git a/pandas/conftest.py b/pandas/conftest.py
index ab097b79dcd4e..bae45743bbcfb 100644
--- a/pandas/conftest.py
+++ b/pandas/conftest.py
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
         pytest.skip("skipping due to --skip-network")
 
     if 'high_memory' in item.keywords and not item.config.getoption(
-        "--run-highmemory"):
-            pytest.skip(
-                "skipping high memory test since --run-highmemory was not set")
+            "--run-highmemory"):
+        pytest.skip(
+            "skipping high memory test since --run-highmemory was not set")
 
 
 # Configurations for all tests and all test modules