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diff --git a/Lib/ast.py b/Lib/ast.py
index 0d3b19d922..2edb7171e9 100644
--- a/Lib/ast.py
+++ b/Lib/ast.py
@@ -1090,6 +1090,15 @@ class _Unparser(NodeVisitor):
self.write(node.id)
def _write_docstring(self, node):
+ def esc_char(c):
+ if c in ("\n", "\t"):
+ # In the AST form, we don't know the author's intentation
+ # about how this should be displayed. We'll only escape
+ # \n and \t, because they are more likely to be unescaped
+ # in the source
+ return c
+ return c.encode('unicode_escape').decode('ascii')
+
self.fill()
if node.kind == "u":
self.write("u")
@@ -1097,11 +1106,10 @@ class _Unparser(NodeVisitor):
value = node.value
if value:
# Preserve quotes in the docstring by escaping them
- value = value.replace("\\", "\\\\")
- value = value.replace('"""', '""\"')
- value = value.replace("\r", "\\r")
+ value = "".join(map(esc_char, value))
if value[-1] == '"':
value = value.replace('"', '\\"', -1)
+ value = value.replace('"""', '""\\"')
self.write(f'"""{value}"""')