FIX: Escape backslashes before parsing strings

Author: effigies

nibabel/nicom/ascconv.py

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ def parse_ascconv(ascconv_str, str_delim='"'):
     attrs, content = ASCCONV_RE.match(ascconv_str).groups()
     attrs = OrderedDict((tuple(x.split('=')) for x in attrs.split()))
     # Normalize string start / end markers to something Python understands
-    content = content.replace(str_delim, '"""')
+    content = content.replace(str_delim, '"""').replace("\\", "\\\\")
     # Use Python's own parser to parse modified ASCCONV assignments
     tree = ast.parse(content)