#15980: properly escape newlines in docstrings. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
index 6d22ca7..c976021 100644
--- a/Lib/email/utils.py
+++ b/Lib/email/utils.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
"""Decodes a base64 string.
This function is equivalent to base64.decodestring and it's retained only
- for backward compatibility. It used to remove the last \n of the decoded
+ for backward compatibility. It used to remove the last \\n of the decoded
string, if it had any (see issue 7143).
"""
if not s:
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
def fix_eols(s):
- """Replace all line-ending characters with \r\n."""
+ """Replace all line-ending characters with \\r\\n."""
# Fix newlines with no preceding carriage return
s = re.sub(r'(?<!\r)\n', CRLF, s)
# Fix carriage returns with no following newline