Use :samp: role.
diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index c6eb828..0bf5710 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -1810,9 +1810,9 @@
filesystem.
* An ``'AF_PIPE'`` address is a string of the form
- ``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 ``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.