diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
index c64422ecc0d..bd99c69d0c3 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ class VaultLib:
             raise AnsibleVaultError("A vault password must be specified to decrypt data")
 
         if not is_encrypted(b_vaulttext):
-            msg = "input is not vault encrypted data"
+            msg = "input is not vault encrypted data. "
             if filename:
                 msg += "%s is not a vault encrypted file" % to_native(filename)
             raise AnsibleError(msg)