diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
index 3748da6e260..4e6be9f7051 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ def _ipaddr_info(host, port, family, type, proto, flowinfo=0, scopeid=0):
 
     if isinstance(host, bytes):
         host = host.decode('idna')
+    # Even though we're calling str() on host (so we'll convert arbitrary objects to str),
+    # we're restricting it to a valid IP address later when calling socket.inet_pton().
     host = str(host)
     if '%' in host:
         # Linux's inet_pton doesn't accept an IPv6 zone index after host,