I am creating autogenerated documentation for a python class using sphinx, and at a few points I need to write pseudocode. The offending docstring is below:

    def _get_empty_filter_params(self) -> dict:
        """
        Get a dict populated with keys needed to initialize the filter if they are not set yet.
        This dict must have the following structure:

        filter_params = {'Parameter 1': {'Type': <int, float, or str>,
                                         'Value': <value> or None,
                                         'Options': [<option 1>, <option 2>, ... ] or None,
                                         'Min': <min value> or None,
                                         'Max': <max value> or None
                                        }, 
                        ...
                        }

        :return: the dict that must be filled in to initialize the filter
        :rtype: dict
        """
        pass

When compiling this, I get the following error:

[...]MetaFilter.py:docstring of utils.MetaFilter.MetaFilter._get_empty_filter_params:9: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
[...]MetaFilter.py:docstring of utils.MetaFilter.MetaFilter._get_empty_filter_params:10: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

Some googling suggested that I could do this as an inline code block, like so:

"""
        Get a dict populated with keys needed to initialize the filter if they are not set yet.
        This dict must have the following structure:

        ..code-block:: python
          filter_params = {'Parameter 1': {'Type': <int, float, or str>,
                                         'Value': <value> or None,
                                         'Options': [<option 1>, <option 2>, ... ] or None,
                                         'Min': <min value> or None,
                                         'Max': <max value> or None
                                        }, 
                        ...
                        }

        :return: the dict that must be filled in to initialize the filter
        :rtype: dict
        """

but this does not address the error. I am assuming the issue relates to special characters that need to be properly escaped, but I have tried to escape everything that isn’t a basic letter in that block and it does not seem to help. Can anyone shed some light on what is causing the issue?