From 0683e955e0874b496b88d9f95e22fdea7a158954 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Nothman <joel.nothman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:06:25 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] FIX pedantic handling of whitespace in reference regex

---
 numpydoc/numpydoc.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
index 763c022d..9536b276 100644
--- a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
+++ b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ def rename_references(app, what, name, obj, options, lines):
     references = set()
     for line in lines:
         line = line.strip()
-        m = re.match(sixu('^.. \\[(%s)\\]') % app.config.numpydoc_citation_re,
+        m = re.match(sixu(r'^\.\. +\[(%s)\]') %
+                     app.config.numpydoc_citation_re,
                      line, re.I)
         if m:
             references.add(m.group(1))