diff --git a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
index 4fefa5a68334d6f7274bd2c599d62b99e721b8f6..f15cd62f4cfb676502a574857cc80c934bc7ba3c 100644
--- a/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SimpleXMLRPCServer.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Simple XML-RPC Server.
+r"""Simple XML-RPC Server.
 
 This module can be used to create simple XML-RPC servers
 by creating a server and either installing functions, a