From 255a184a4695a020946149e11ec1de06b13efc00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuxuan Chen <yuxnchen@amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 17:32:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Strip backslash before ^ in generated docstrings

---
 .../amazon/smithy/python/codegen/writer/MarkdownConverter.java  | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/codegen/core/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/python/codegen/writer/MarkdownConverter.java b/codegen/core/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/python/codegen/writer/MarkdownConverter.java
index 647c0b14e..30e2e003b 100644
--- a/codegen/core/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/python/codegen/writer/MarkdownConverter.java
+++ b/codegen/core/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/python/codegen/writer/MarkdownConverter.java
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ private static String postProcessPandocOutput(String output) {
 
         // Remove unnecessary backslash escapes that pandoc adds for markdown
         // These characters don't need escaping in Python docstrings
-        output = output.replaceAll("\\\\([\\[\\]'{}()<>`@_*|!~$#])", "$1");
+        output = output.replaceAll("\\\\([\\[\\]'{}()<>`@_*|!~$#^])", "$1");
 
         // Replace <note> and <important> tags with admonitions for mkdocstrings
         output = replaceAdmonitionTags(output, "note", "Note");