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Richard Hansen wrote:
> 
> New submission from Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>:
> 
> The description of the unicode_escape codec says that it produces "a
> string that is suitable as Unicode literal in Python source code." [1] 
> Unfortunately, this is not true as it does not escape quotes. For example:
> 
> print u'a\'b"c\'\'\'d"""e'.encode('unicode_escape')
> 
> outputs:
> 
> a'b"c'''d"""e
Indeed. Python only uses the decoder of that codec internally.
> I have attached a patch that fixes this issue by escaping single quotes.
> With the patch applied, the output is:
> 
> a\'b"c\'\'\'d"""e
> 
> I chose to only escape single quotes because:
> 1. it simplifies the patch, and
> 2. it matches string_escape's behavior.
If we change this, the encoder should quote both single and double
quotes - simply because it is not known whether the literal
will use single or double quotes.
The raw_unicode_escape codec would have to be fixed as well.