From f4b814f9a23287716493a612e041f7cd4ea297ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
 <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:29:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix improper use of re.escape() in tests. (GH-4814) (#4816)

(cherry picked from commit b748e3b2586e44bfc7011b601bce9cc6d16d89f1)
---
 Lib/test/test_re.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index e23e5a9a6ca..2b74373ffae 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
         s = r"\1\1"
         self.assertEqual(re.sub('(.)', s, 'x'), 'xx')
-        self.assertEqual(re.sub('(.)', re.escape(s), 'x'), s)
+        self.assertEqual(re.sub('(.)', s.replace('\\', r'\\'), 'x'), s)
         self.assertEqual(re.sub('(.)', lambda m: s, 'x'), s)
 
         self.assertEqual(re.sub('(?P<a>x)', r'\g<a>\g<a>', 'xx'), 'xxxx')