diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/rag/ingestion/spanner_it_test.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/rag/ingestion/spanner_it_test.py
index c371d6fd96b4..0d6fd58dde49 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/rag/ingestion/spanner_it_test.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/rag/ingestion/spanner_it_test.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 try:
   from google.cloud import spanner
 except ImportError:
-  spanner = None
+  spanner = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
 
 try:
   from testcontainers.core.container import DockerContainer