From 815521fca0c1c353c565be23bdde8c5a19ce24ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:27:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Correctly escape arbitrary error message text in the runpy
 unit tests

---
 Lib/test/test_runpy.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
index 45c839e87b3..a9cdbee08d9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_runpy.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import unittest
 import os
 import os.path
 import sys
+import re
 import tempfile
 from test.test_support import verbose, run_unittest, forget
 from test.script_helper import (temp_dir, make_script, compile_script,
@@ -317,8 +318,7 @@ argv0 = sys.argv[0]
         self.assertEqual(result["__package__"], expected_package)
 
     def _check_import_error(self, script_name, msg):
-        # Double backslashes to handle path separators on Windows
-        msg = msg.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+        msg = re.escape(msg)
         self.assertRaisesRegexp(ImportError, msg, run_path, script_name)
 
     def test_basic_script(self):