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Python 1.5.2 also exhibits this behavior, and I'm fairly certain all previous versions did as well.  It's not at all clear this is a bug.  Typically, languages which use a line continuation character don't allow anything between the continuation character and the end of the physical line (in some, it's actually just an "escape" that causes the newline to be treated as any other whitespace character, as in the Unix shells).

I'm marking this "Not a bug" since there is no change in behavior or other reason to consider this an error.