From 92271ec06b7abc5b6c3daf2e94563c575983d436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warren Weckesser <warren.weckesser@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 19:04:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] MAINT: core: Use a raw string for the fromstring docstring.

This docstring needs to be a raw string so the backslashes
in the example are not processed by Python or Sphinx.

Closes gh-16390.
---
 numpy/core/records.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/numpy/core/records.py b/numpy/core/records.py
index af59de425e69..7e1c0d591020 100644
--- a/numpy/core/records.py
+++ b/numpy/core/records.py
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ def fromrecords(recList, dtype=None, shape=None, formats=None, names=None,
 
 def fromstring(datastring, dtype=None, shape=None, offset=0, formats=None,
                names=None, titles=None, aligned=False, byteorder=None):
-    """Create a record array from binary data
+    r"""Create a record array from binary data
 
     Note that despite the name of this function it does not accept `str`
     instances.