Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.

4194b5d7 · Zachary Ware · 76c2f06c · 4194b5d7 · 4194b5d7
Commit 4194b5d7 authored Jan 25, 2014 by Zachary Ware
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ Tests
 Tools/Demos
 -----------

+- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.
+
 - Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when
  c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for
  disallowed values.

--- a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
+++ b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ def fail(*args, filename=None, line_number=None):

 def quoted_for_c_string(s):
    for old, new in (
+        ('\\', '\\\\'), # must be first!
        ('"', '\\"'),
        ("'", "\\'"),
        ):