diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
index a88e358eae5fde..c1a20fee6cf024 100644
--- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Protocol) and :rfc:`1869` (SMTP Service Extensions).
       If the *timeout* parameter is set to be zero, it will raise a
       :class:`ValueError` to prevent the creation of a non-blocking socket
 
-.. class:: LMTP(host='', port=LMTP_PORT, local_hostname=None,
+.. class:: LMTP(host='', port=LMTP_PORT, local_hostname=None, \
                 source_address=None[, timeout])
 
    The LMTP protocol, which is very similar to ESMTP, is heavily based on the
diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
index 2c78cd939243a8..bf72c46561b7c7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ module documentation.  This section lists the differences between the API and
           ... # Work with dom.
 
 
-.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="",
+.. method:: Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="", \
                           encoding=None, standalone=None)
 
    Write XML to the writer object.  The writer receives texts but not bytes as input,
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ module documentation.  This section lists the differences between the API and
       The :meth:`toxml` method now preserves the attribute order specified
       by the user.
 
-.. method:: Node.toprettyxml(indent="\\t", newl="\\n", encoding=None,
+.. method:: Node.toprettyxml(indent="\\t", newl="\\n", encoding=None, \
                              standalone=None)
 
    Return a pretty-printed version of the document. *indent* specifies the