How to document an exception using Sphinx?

You can use a backslash for line continuation:

def some_funct():
    """
    :raises ExceptionType: Some multi-line \
        exception description.
    """

Update:

Indenting seems to work instead of escaping the newline:

def some_funct():
    """
    :raises ExceptionType: Some multi-line
        exception description.
    """

def some_funct():
    """
    My documentation, but watch the empty line below (necessary)

        :raise: Exception

            when status != my_status 
            | status <= max_status

Note: https://pythonhosted.org/an_example_pypi_project/sphinx.html#full-code-example has some nice samples (not on the multi-line exception unfortunately)