diff --git a/Doc/conf.py b/Doc/conf.py
index 1aadd961b6ef0f..e539da539e6551 100644
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, document class [howto/manual]).
-_stdauthor = r'Guido van Rossum\\and the Python development team'
+_stdauthor = 'Guido van Rossum and the Python development team'
 latex_documents = [
     ('c-api/index', 'c-api.tex',
      'The Python/C API', _stdauthor, 'manual'),