diff --git a/vm/src/lib.rs b/vm/src/lib.rs
index bcd00bb68..8bb72641d 100644
--- a/vm/src/lib.rs
+++ b/vm/src/lib.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 // for methods like vm.to_str(), not the typical use of 'to' as a method prefix
 #![allow(clippy::wrong_self_convention, clippy::implicit_hasher)]
+#![allow(clippy::suspicious_else_formatting)]
 // to allow `mod foo {}` in foo.rs; clippy thinks this is a mistake/misunderstanding of
 // how `mod` works, but we want this sometimes for pymodule declarations
 #![allow(clippy::module_inception)]