[3.11] gh-88355: Fix backslashes in AF_PIPE (GH-96543) (#97854)

miss-islington · cousteaulecommandant · pablogsal · commit 95f7ed8b079b · 2022-10-22T20:05:30.000+01:00
gh-88355: Fix backslashes in AF_PIPE (GH-96543) Fix backslashes in AF_PIPE (GH-88355) The correct syntax for AF_PIPE addresses is `\\.\pipe\blahblah`, not `\.\pipe{blahblah}`, but the syntax markup messed up the backslashes. (cherry picked from commit ff28d89) Co-authored-by: cousteau <cousteaulecommandant@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: cousteau <cousteaulecommandant@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -2630,9 +2630,9 @@ Address Formats
   filesystem.
 
 * An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form
-  :samp:`r'\\\\.\\pipe\\{PipeName}'`.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
+  :samp:`r'\\\\\\.\\pipe\\\\{PipeName}'`.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
   pipe on a remote computer called *ServerName* one should use an address of the
-  form :samp:`r'\\\\{ServerName}\\pipe\\{PipeName}'` instead.
+  form :samp:`r'\\\\\\\\{ServerName}\\pipe\\\\{PipeName}'` instead.
 
 Note that any string beginning with two backslashes is assumed by default to be
 an ``'AF_PIPE'`` address rather than an ``'AF_UNIX'`` address.
