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-rw-r--r--py/lexer.c2
-rw-r--r--tests/basics/lexer.py4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/py/lexer.c b/py/lexer.c
index c6ecdf1f8..7db49de89 100644
--- a/py/lexer.c
+++ b/py/lexer.c
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ STATIC void mp_lexer_next_token_into(mp_lexer_t *lex, bool first_token) {
} else {
switch (c) {
case MP_LEXER_EOF: break; // TODO a proper error message?
- case '\n': c = MP_LEXER_EOF; break; // TODO check this works correctly (we are supposed to ignore it
+ case '\n': c = MP_LEXER_EOF; break; // backslash escape the newline, just ignore it
case '\\': break;
case '\'': break;
case '"': break;
diff --git a/tests/basics/lexer.py b/tests/basics/lexer.py
index 70a9cce99..5f12afa70 100644
--- a/tests/basics/lexer.py
+++ b/tests/basics/lexer.py
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ print(eval("1\r"))
print(eval("12\r"))
print(eval("123\r"))
+# backslash used to escape a line-break in a string
+print('a\
+b')
+
# lots of indentation
def a(x):
if x: