diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
index 0b7135b2d109d..9e2e54160ffba 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v3.0.0.rst
@@ -1192,6 +1192,7 @@ Other
 - Bug in :func:`eval` where method calls on binary operations like ``(x + y).dropna()`` would raise ``AttributeError: 'BinOp' object has no attribute 'value'`` (:issue:`61175`)
 - Bug in :func:`eval` where the names of the :class:`Series` were not preserved when using ``engine="numexpr"``. (:issue:`10239`)
 - Bug in :func:`eval` with ``engine="numexpr"`` returning unexpected result for float division. (:issue:`59736`)
+- Bug in :func:`test_query_duplicate_column_name` raising ``doc-formatting`` error and causing pipelines to fail (:issue:`62701`)
 - Bug in :func:`to_numeric` raising ``TypeError`` when ``arg`` is a :class:`Timedelta` or :class:`Timestamp` scalar. (:issue:`59944`)
 - Bug in :func:`unique` on :class:`Index` not always returning :class:`Index` (:issue:`57043`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.apply` raising ``RecursionError`` when passing ``func=list[int]``. (:issue:`61565`)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py b/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
index b599be5d042fe..b31e8529b238b 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/frame/test_query_eval.py
@@ -160,21 +160,13 @@ def test_query_empty_string(self):
             df.query("")
 
     def test_query_duplicate_column_name(self, engine, parser):
-        df = DataFrame(
-            {
-                "A": range(3),
-                "B": range(3),
-                "C": range(3)
-            }
-        ).rename(columns={"B": "A"})
+        df = DataFrame({"A": range(3), "B": range(3), "C": range(3)}).rename(
+            columns={"B": "A"}
+        )
 
         res = df.query("C == 1", engine=engine, parser=parser)
 
-        expect = DataFrame(
-            [[1, 1, 1]],
-            columns=["A", "A", "C"],
-            index=[1]
-        )
+        expect = DataFrame([[1, 1, 1]], columns=["A", "A", "C"], index=[1])
 
         tm.assert_frame_equal(res, expect)
 
@@ -1140,9 +1132,7 @@ def test_query_with_nested_special_character(self, parser, engine):
             [">=", operator.ge],
         ],
     )
-    def test_query_lex_compare_strings(
-        self, parser, engine, op, func
-    ):
+    def test_query_lex_compare_strings(self, parser, engine, op, func):
         a = Series(np.random.default_rng(2).choice(list("abcde"), 20))
         b = Series(np.arange(a.size))
         df = DataFrame({"X": a, "Y": b})