diff --git a/Parser/tokenizer.c b/Parser/tokenizer.c
index cebfadc..d461e4e 100644
--- a/Parser/tokenizer.c
+++ b/Parser/tokenizer.c
@@ -1203,8 +1203,9 @@
             }
         }
         tok_backup(tok, c);
-        if (c == '#' || c == '\n') {
+        if (c == '#' || c == '\n' || c == '\\') {
             /* Lines with only whitespace and/or comments
+               and/or a line continuation character
                shouldn't affect the indentation and are
                not passed to the parser as NEWLINE tokens,
                except *totally* empty lines in interactive