remove uneeded escape sequence

removed uneeded wscape sequences from method arguments in the docs
folder

docs/topics/api.rst

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ how you :ref:`configure the downloader middlewares
         provided while constructing the crawler, and it is created after the
         arguments given in the :meth:`crawl` method.
 
-    .. method:: crawl(\*args, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: crawl(*args, **kwargs)
 
         Starts the crawler by instantiating its spider class with the given
         ``args`` and ``kwargs`` arguments, while setting the execution engine in

docs/topics/contracts.rst

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ override three methods:
 
 .. module:: scrapy.contracts
 
-.. class:: Contract(method, \*args)
+.. class:: Contract(method, *args)
 
     :param method: callback function to which the contract is associated
     :type method: function

docs/topics/exporters.rst

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ PythonItemExporter
 XmlItemExporter
 ---------------
 
-.. class:: XmlItemExporter(file, item_element='item', root_element='items', \**kwargs)
+.. class:: XmlItemExporter(file, item_element='item', root_element='items', **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in XML format to the specified file object.
 
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ XmlItemExporter
 CsvItemExporter
 ---------------
 
-.. class:: CsvItemExporter(file, include_headers_line=True, join_multivalued=',', \**kwargs)
+.. class:: CsvItemExporter(file, include_headers_line=True, join_multivalued=',', **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in CSV format to the given file-like object. If the
    :attr:`fields_to_export` attribute is set, it will be used to define the
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ CsvItemExporter
 PickleItemExporter
 ------------------
 
-.. class:: PickleItemExporter(file, protocol=0, \**kwargs)
+.. class:: PickleItemExporter(file, protocol=0, **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in pickle format to the given file-like object.
 
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ PickleItemExporter
 PprintItemExporter
 ------------------
 
-.. class:: PprintItemExporter(file, \**kwargs)
+.. class:: PprintItemExporter(file, **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in pretty print format to the specified file object.
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ PprintItemExporter
 JsonItemExporter
 ----------------
 
-.. class:: JsonItemExporter(file, \**kwargs)
+.. class:: JsonItemExporter(file, **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in JSON format to the specified file-like object, writing all
    objects as a list of objects. The additional ``__init__`` method arguments are
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ JsonItemExporter
 JsonLinesItemExporter
 ---------------------
 
-.. class:: JsonLinesItemExporter(file, \**kwargs)
+.. class:: JsonLinesItemExporter(file, **kwargs)
 
    Exports Items in JSON format to the specified file-like object, writing one
    JSON-encoded item per line. The additional ``__init__`` method arguments are passed

docs/topics/loaders.rst

@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ There are several ways to modify Item Loader context values:
 ItemLoader objects
 ==================
 
-.. class:: ItemLoader([item, selector, response], \**kwargs)
+.. class:: ItemLoader([item, selector, response], **kwargs)
 
     Return a new Item Loader for populating the given Item. If no item is
     given, one is instantiated automatically using the class in
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
 
     :class:`ItemLoader` instances have the following methods:
 
-    .. method:: get_value(value, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: get_value(value, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Process the given ``value`` by the given ``processors`` and keyword
         arguments.
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
         >>> loader.get_value(u'name: foo', TakeFirst(), unicode.upper, re='name: (.+)')
         'FOO`
 
-    .. method:: add_value(field_name, value, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: add_value(field_name, value, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Process and then add the given ``value`` for the given field.
 
@@ -343,11 +343,11 @@ ItemLoader objects
             loader.add_value('name', u'name: foo', TakeFirst(), re='name: (.+)')
             loader.add_value(None, {'name': u'foo', 'sex': u'male'})
 
-    .. method:: replace_value(field_name, value, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: replace_value(field_name, value, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`add_value` but replaces the collected data with the
         new value instead of adding it.
-    .. method:: get_xpath(xpath, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: get_xpath(xpath, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`ItemLoader.get_value` but receives an XPath instead of a
         value, which is used to extract a list of unicode strings from the
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
             # HTML snippet: <p id="price">the price is $1200</p>
             loader.get_xpath('//p[@id="price"]', TakeFirst(), re='the price is (.*)')
 
-    .. method:: add_xpath(field_name, xpath, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: add_xpath(field_name, xpath, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`ItemLoader.add_value` but receives an XPath instead of a
         value, which is used to extract a list of unicode strings from the
@@ -385,12 +385,12 @@ ItemLoader objects
             # HTML snippet: <p id="price">the price is $1200</p>
             loader.add_xpath('price', '//p[@id="price"]', re='the price is (.*)')
 
-    .. method:: replace_xpath(field_name, xpath, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: replace_xpath(field_name, xpath, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`add_xpath` but replaces collected data instead of
         adding it.
 
-    .. method:: get_css(css, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: get_css(css, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`ItemLoader.get_value` but receives a CSS selector
         instead of a value, which is used to extract a list of unicode strings
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
             # HTML snippet: <p id="price">the price is $1200</p>
             loader.get_css('p#price', TakeFirst(), re='the price is (.*)')
 
-    .. method:: add_css(field_name, css, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: add_css(field_name, css, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`ItemLoader.add_value` but receives a CSS selector
         instead of a value, which is used to extract a list of unicode strings
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ ItemLoader objects
             # HTML snippet: <p id="price">the price is $1200</p>
             loader.add_css('price', 'p#price', re='the price is (.*)')
 
-    .. method:: replace_css(field_name, css, \*processors, \**kwargs)
+    .. method:: replace_css(field_name, css, *processors, **kwargs)
 
         Similar to :meth:`add_css` but replaces collected data instead of
         adding it.
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ Here is a list of all built-in processors:
     >>> proc(['one', 'two', 'three'])
     'one<br>two<br>three'
 
-.. class:: Compose(\*functions, \**default_loader_context)
+.. class:: Compose(*functions, **default_loader_context)
 
     A processor which is constructed from the composition of the given
     functions. This means that each input value of this processor is passed to
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ Here is a list of all built-in processors:
     active Loader context accessible through the :meth:`ItemLoader.context`
     attribute.
 
-.. class:: MapCompose(\*functions, \**default_loader_context)
+.. class:: MapCompose(*functions, **default_loader_context)
 
     A processor which is constructed from the composition of the given
     functions, similar to the :class:`Compose` processor. The difference with

docs/topics/spiders.rst

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ scrapy.Spider
       send log messages through it as described on
       :ref:`topics-logging-from-spiders`.
 
-   .. method:: from_crawler(crawler, \*args, \**kwargs)
+   .. method:: from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
 
        This is the class method used by Scrapy to create your spiders.