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

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5fdce5d009eddb1aa83b494bb51468312e004f46
commit: 5fdce5d009eddb1aa83b494bb51468312e004f46
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: orsenthil <senthilx at amazon.com>
date: 2022-10-04T15:55:34-07:00
summary:

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

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 ff28d8926de92d809e3b7f71d3e44672178ed11e)

Co-authored-by: cousteau <cousteaulecommandant at users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: cousteau <cousteaulecommandant at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 6f6e7881598b..dab115acdc20 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -2629,9 +2629,9 @@ 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.