How to preserve line breaks when generating python docs using sphinx

Question

I am using Sphinx for generating docs for a python project. The output html is not preserving the line breaks which are present in the docstring. Example:

Code

def testMethod(arg1,arg2):     """     This is a test method      Arguments:     arg1: arg1 description     arg2: arg2 description      Returns:     None     """     print "I am a test method" 

Sphinx O/P:

TestModule.testMethod(arg1, arg2)  This is a test method  Arguments: arg1: arg1 description arg2: arg2 description  Returns: None 

Any idea how to fix it ?

Answer 1

In general in restructured text use

| Vertical bars | like this 

to keep line breaks