Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> writes:

> FYI, reST uses three-space indents, not four (so that blocks align
> nicely under the leading two dots + one space), so I think the change
> was intentional.

No, reST doesn't specify any particular level of indentation. Like most
Python programmers I prefer four-space indentation, so I do the same in
my reST documents::

   ..  epigraph::
       “Foo bar baz” —Fnorble

I strongly recommend the same for Python documentation.