diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/__init__.py
index a24313ca0e..de99bd351e 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/confluent_kafka/__init__.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def commit(self, *args, **kwargs):
 
     def consume(
         self, *args, **kwargs
-    ):  # pylint: disable=keyword-arg-before-vararg
+    ):  
         return ConfluentKafkaInstrumentor.wrap_consume(
             self._consumer.consume, self, self._tracer, args, kwargs,
         )