title: SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
body: <p>I am testing a code with doctest and I want to comment in front of the tests like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Tests:
  &gt;&gt;&gt; part([('Eva', 'Sao Paulo', 21098, '04-12', 1182),\    #False, 1, 0
      ('Ana', 'Toquio', 21098, '06-12', 1182),\
      ('Ana', 'Sao Paulo', 21098, '04-12', 1096)])
      [2, 1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that when I run the code in the shell it gives me a synthax error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "/home/user/Desktop/file.py", line 44, in __main__.part
  Failed example:
      part([('Eva', 'Sao Paulo', 21098, '04-12', 1182),\     #False, 1, 0
  Exception raised:
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/usr/lib/python2.7/doctest.py", line 1315, in __run
          compileflags, 1) in test.globs
        File "&lt;doctest __main__.part[2]&gt;", line 1
          part([('Eva', 'Sao Paulo', 21098, '04-12', 1182),\     #False, 1, 0
                                                                                     ^
      SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
  </code></pre>