diff --git a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
index d7ed3f32f7b..fd170265837 100644
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/server.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""XML-RPC Servers.
+r"""XML-RPC Servers.
 
 This module can be used to create simple XML-RPC servers
 by creating a server and either installing functions, a