ID 215208 - Mari Python "\\" string causes all code beneath to be a string

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Problem summary
The customer has highlighted a bug with the python interpreter. When the content of a string is "\\"  everything line beneath it behaves like a string

Customer reported platform
windows8

Steps to reproduce

1)Open the Python Console in Mari (Python>Show console)

2) Type a string with a forward slash i.e. string "\"

3) after that string type anything and it will still be recognized as a string

Reproduced by support
3.1v1 on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10
2.6v5 on Windows 7
3.1v1 on MAC OS X El Capitan 10.11.4

Expected behaviour
for variables, functions and conditional statements to behave as they are intended

Actual behaviour
everything behaved like a string
 

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