diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
index 2c2748400a2a..bea4d55e1746 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@
 
 _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-# Map the boolean option with the flag_name for the flags that have a
-# destination(dest) different from the flag name and the
-# default value is None in parser.add_argument().
-_FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST = {'use_public_ips': 'no_use_public_ips'}
+# Map defined with option names to flag names for boolean options
+# that have a destination(dest) in parser.add_argument() different
+# from the flag name and whose default value is `None`.
+_FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE = {'use_public_ips': 'no_use_public_ips'}
 
 
 def _static_value_provider_of(value_type):
@@ -259,12 +259,12 @@ def from_dictionary(cls, options):
       if isinstance(v, bool):
         if v:
           flags.append('--%s' % k)
-        elif k in _FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST:
+        elif k in _FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE:
           # Capture overriding flags, which have a different dest
           # from the flag name defined in the parser.add_argument
           # Eg: no_use_public_ips, which has the dest=use_public_ips
           # different from flag name
-          flag_that_disables_the_option = (_FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST[k])
+          flag_that_disables_the_option = (_FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE[k])
           flags.append('--%s' % flag_that_disables_the_option)
       elif isinstance(v, list):
         for i in v:
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options_test.py
index d49ecec66702..3195f3594fe0 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options_test.py
@@ -687,15 +687,15 @@ def test_options_store_false_with_different_dest(self):
             "to the user. Please specify the dest as the "
             "flag_name instead."))
     from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import (
-        _FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST)
+        _FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE)
 
     self.assertDictEqual(
-        _FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST,
+        _FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE,
         options_to_flags,
         "If you are adding a new boolean flag with default=None,"
         " with different dest/option_name from the flag name, please add "
         "the dest and the flag name to the map "
-        "_FLAGS_WITH_DIFFERENT_DEST in PipelineOptions.py")
+        "_FLAG_THAT_SETS_FALSE_VALUE in PipelineOptions.py")
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':