Index: Lib/test/test_unicode.py
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--- Lib/test/test_unicode.py	(revision 77338)
+++ Lib/test/test_unicode.py	(working copy)
@@ -683,6 +683,11 @@
         for encoding in ('utf-8',):
             self.assertEqual(unicode(u.encode(encoding),encoding), u)
 
+    def test_codecs_unicode_escape(self):
+        # issue 7615:  escape single quotes
+        u = u'a\'b"c\'\'\'d"""e'
+        self.assertEqual(eval("u'" + u.encode('unicode_escape') + "'"), u)
+
     def test_codecs_charmap(self):
         # 0-127
         s = ''.join(map(chr, xrange(128)))