#4695: fix backslashery.

diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 8297e9fcd587aaa44400b0f4c1ca2c19da77ff31..c6eb828dcf610907e59b530af66bbf5290b7dac0 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1810,9 +1810,9 @@ Address Formats
   filesystem.
 
 * An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form
-   ``r'\\\\.\\pipe\\PipeName'``.  To use :func:`Client` to connect to a named
+   ``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 ``r'\\\\ServerName\\pipe\\PipeName'`` instead.
+   form ``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.