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diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index ac71c5b0d..b5723dee5 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -960,8 +960,8 @@ def _read(fname, *, delimiter=',', comment='#', quote='"',
if quote is not None:
raise ValueError(
"when multiple comments or a multi-character comment is "
- "given, quotes are not supported. In this case the quote "
- "character must be set to the empty string: `quote=''`.")
+ "given, quotes are not supported. In this case quotechar "
+ "must be set to None.")
if len(imaginary_unit) != 1:
raise ValueError('len(imaginary_unit) must be 1.')