diff --git a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection.java b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection.java
index d48d10e0b0c7..fd53eb94a87b 100644
--- a/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection.java
+++ b/python/src/com/jetbrains/python/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection.java
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ package com.jetbrains.python.inspections;
 
 import com.intellij.codeInspection.LocalInspectionToolSession;
 import com.intellij.codeInspection.ProblemsHolder;
-import com.intellij.psi.PsiComment;
-import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
 import com.intellij.psi.PsiElementVisitor;
 import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
 import com.jetbrains.python.PyBundle;
@@ -60,11 +58,8 @@ public class PyByteLiteralInspection extends PyInspection {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void visitComment(PsiComment node) {
-      checkString(node, node.getText());
-    }
-    
-    private void checkString(PsiElement node, String value) {
+    public void visitPyStringLiteralExpression(PyStringLiteralExpression node) {
+      String value = node.getStringValue();
       PsiFile file = node.getContainingFile(); // can't cache this in the instance, alas
       if (file == null) return;
       boolean default_bytes = false;
@@ -101,10 +96,5 @@ public class PyByteLiteralInspection extends PyInspection {
         registerProblem(node, "Byte literal contains characters > 255");
       }
     }
-
-    @Override
-    public void visitPyStringLiteralExpression(PyStringLiteralExpression node) {
-      checkString(node, node.getStringValue());
-    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/python/testData/inspections/InspectionsDisabledInFunctionTypeComments/test.py b/python/testData/inspections/InspectionsDisabledInFunctionTypeComments/test.py
index 96e5ed040197..5653a7b215a6 100644
--- a/python/testData/inspections/InspectionsDisabledInFunctionTypeComments/test.py
+++ b/python/testData/inspections/InspectionsDisabledInFunctionTypeComments/test.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <weak_warning descr="Missing docstring"></weak_warning><warning descr="No encoding specified for file"></warning>def <weak_warning descr="Missing docstring">f</weak_warning>(x):
-    <warning descr="Byte literal contains characters > 255"><warning descr="Non-ASCII character М in file, but no encoding declared"># type: (b'Моноцикл') -> None</warning></warning>
+    <warning descr="Non-ASCII character М in file, but no encoding declared"># type: (b'Моноцикл') -> None</warning>
     pass
 
 
diff --git a/python/testData/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection/test.py b/python/testData/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection/test.py
index 52fd9837bd09..f79bc90a9b41 100644
--- a/python/testData/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection/test.py
+++ b/python/testData/inspections/PyByteLiteralInspection/test.py
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
+# Медведь на моноцикле
+
 <warning descr="Byte literal contains characters > 255">b"aaa�"</warning>
 b"24sd"
\ No newline at end of file