Properly escape backslash.
diff --git a/documentation/pyserial_api.rst b/documentation/pyserial_api.rst
index c821773..d9dcb32 100644
--- a/documentation/pyserial_api.rst
+++ b/documentation/pyserial_api.rst
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
:return: Bytes read from the port.
:rtype: bytes
- Read until an expected sequence is found ('\n' by default), the size
+ Read until an expected sequence is found ('\\n' by default), the size
is exceeded or until timeout occurs. If a timeout is set it may
return less characters as requested. With no timeout it will block
until the requested number of bytes is read.