From 992526def0a1fe3d04c947c540b0c42229505058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:45:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] #376: In autodoc, fix display of parameter defaults
 containing backslashes.

---
 CHANGES               | 3 +++
 sphinx/ext/autodoc.py | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 22380a300..979352aa0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Release 0.6.6 (in development)
 ==============================
 
+* #376: In autodoc, fix display of parameter defaults containing
+  backslashes.
+
 * #370: Fix handling of complex list item labels in LaTeX output.
 
 * #374: Make the ``doctest_path`` config value of the doctest
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py b/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
index 676740671..084ae1552 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autodoc.py
@@ -813,7 +813,10 @@ class FunctionDocumenter(ModuleLevelDocumenter):
                 argspec = inspect.getargspec(self.object.__init__)
                 if argspec[0]:
                     del argspec[0][0]
-        return inspect.formatargspec(*argspec)
+        args = inspect.formatargspec(*argspec)
+        # escape backslashes for reST
+        args = args.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+        return args
 
     def document_members(self, all_members=False):
         pass