diff --git a/dace/sdfg/sdfg.py b/dace/sdfg/sdfg.py
index 0b72924630..f10e728607 100644
--- a/dace/sdfg/sdfg.py
+++ b/dace/sdfg/sdfg.py
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ def __init__(self,
 
             :param name: Name for the SDFG (also used as the filename for
                          the compiled shared library).
-            :param symbols: Additional dictionary of symbol names -> types that the SDFG
-                            defines, apart from symbolic data sizes.
+            :param constants: Additional dictionary of compile-time constants
+                              {name (str): tuple(type (dace.data.Data), value (Any))}.
             :param propagate: If False, disables automatic propagation of
                               memlet subsets from scopes outwards. Saves
                               processing time but disallows certain