diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
index 0e7ea8ff2437..454fe4d69dea 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
@@ -871,6 +871,8 @@ def __init__(
         to exceed this value.  This also tracks the uncompressed,
         not compressed, size of the shard.
       skip_if_empty: Don't write any shards if the PCollection is empty.
+        In case of an empty PCollection, this will still delete existing
+        files having same file path and not create new ones.
     """
 
     self._sink = _TextSink(