diff --git a/elasticsearch/client/utils.py b/elasticsearch/client/utils.py
index ad808630..0997b25a 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/client/utils.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/client/utils.py
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ def _escape(part):
     if isinstance(part, (list, tuple)):
         part = ','.join(part)
     if isinstance(part, (type(''), type(u''))):
-        # mark ',' as safe for nicer url in logs
         try:
             part = part.encode('utf-8')
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             # Python 2 and str, no need to re-encode
             pass
+        # mark ',' as safe for nicer url in logs
         return quote_plus(part, ',')
     return str(part)