diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 4d2e4953c..eeec4a519 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 static/jquery/* linguist-vendored
 static/semantic/* linguist-vendored
-*.tpl linguist-language=HTML
\ No newline at end of file
+*.tpl linguist-language=Python
\ No newline at end of file