DAP-2146: Fixed SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\*'

cassandra/cluster.py

@@ -2153,10 +2153,10 @@ def add_request_init_listener(self, fn, *args, **kwargs):
         Adds a callback with arguments to be called when any request is created.
 
         It will be invoked as `fn(response_future, *args, **kwargs)` after each client request is created,
-        and before the request is sent\*. This can be used to create extensions by adding result callbacks to the
+        and before the request is sent\\*. This can be used to create extensions by adding result callbacks to the
         response future.
 
-        \* where `response_future` is the :class:`.ResponseFuture` for the request.
+        \\* where `response_future` is the :class:`.ResponseFuture` for the request.
 
         Note that the init callback is done on the client thread creating the request, so you may need to consider
         synchronization if you have multiple threads. Any callbacks added to the response future will be executed

cassandra/cqlengine/connection.py

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ def setup(
     :param int consistency: The global default :class:`~.ConsistencyLevel` - default is the same as :attr:`.Session.default_consistency_level`
     :param bool lazy_connect: True if should not connect until first use
     :param bool retry_connect: True if we should retry to connect even if there was a connection failure initially
-    :param \*\*kwargs: Pass-through keyword arguments for :class:`cassandra.cluster.Cluster`
+    :param kwargs: Pass-through keyword arguments for :class:`cassandra.cluster.Cluster`
     """
 
     from cassandra.cqlengine import models

cassandra/cqlengine/query.py

@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ def add_callback(self, fn, *args, **kwargs):
 
         :param fn: Callable object
         :type fn: callable
-        :param \*args: Positional arguments to be passed to the callback at the time of execution
-        :param \*\*kwargs: Named arguments to be passed to the callback at the time of execution
+        :param args: Positional arguments to be passed to the callback at the time of execution
+        :param kwargs: Named arguments to be passed to the callback at the time of execution
         """
         if not callable(fn):
             raise ValueError("Value for argument 'fn' is {0} and is not a callable object.".format(type(fn)))

cassandra/util.py

@@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ class OrderedMap(Mapping):
         ['value', 'value2']
 
     These constructs are needed to support nested collections in Cassandra 2.1.3+,
-    where frozen collections can be specified as parameters to others\*::
+    where frozen collections can be specified as parameters to others\\*::
 
         CREATE TABLE example (
             ...
@@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ class OrderedMap(Mapping):
     This class derives from the (immutable) Mapping API. Objects in these maps
     are not intended be modified.
 
-    \* Note: Because of the way Cassandra encodes nested types, when using the
+    \\* Note: Because of the way Cassandra encodes nested types, when using the
     driver with nested collections, :attr:`~.Cluster.protocol_version` must be 3
     or higher.