string escaping bugs

diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.py b/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.py
index 9c002c5015e997b33eba202982dc35a18bdf05a5..73b9008a810dde06eb28ccc4a81c38936f4220ff 100644 (file)
--- a/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/Parsing.py
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ def p_string_literal(s):
                         strval = systr
                     chars.append(strval)
                 else:
-                    chars.append(r'\\' + systr[1:])
+                    chars.append('\\' + systr[1:])
         elif sy == 'NEWLINE':
             chars.append('\n')
         elif sy == 'END_STRING':

diff --git a/tests/run/literalslice.pyx b/tests/run/literalslice.pyx
index ea26690a8d23ea96416cf27bc4529b85209485ab..6b1ede72d8c82a2e7da712a292e43c6ae7b6af3d 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/run/literalslice.pyx
+++ b/tests/run/literalslice.pyx
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ __doc__ = u"""
 
   >>> test_unicode_ascii(2)
   u'c'
-  >>> test_unicode(2)
-  u'\u00e4'
+  >>> test_unicode(2) == u'\u00e4'
+  True
 
   >>> test_int_list(2)
   3