Not happy. The \s are showing in scikit-learn rendered docs. It seems that docutils will treat some backslashes in the terms of definition lists as literal rather than escape characters.

Thus

hello\_ : hello\_
    hello\_
hello\* : hello\*
    hello\*
hello\\ : hello\\
    hello\\
hello\` : hello\`
    hello\`

renders in HTML as

hello\_ : hello\_
    hello_
hello\* : hello\*
    hello*
hello\ : hello\
    hello\
hello` : hello`
    hello`

even just through rst2html. I have no idea why this should be the case.

Apparently this is fixed in docutils 0.15 dev :\