diff --git a/Lib/cookielib.py b/Lib/cookielib.py
index 65214df30d1c..f9c8d2f84bd8 100644
--- a/Lib/cookielib.py
+++ b/Lib/cookielib.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""HTTP cookie handling for web clients.
+r"""HTTP cookie handling for web clients.
 
 This module has (now fairly distant) origins in Gisle Aas' Perl module
 HTTP::Cookies, from the libwww-perl library.
diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 19bcd1b41bb0..13629c4a965a 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""HTTP/1.1 client library
+r"""HTTP/1.1 client library
 
 <intro stuff goes here>
 <other stuff, too>