Remove backslash continuation character
<p>I'm trying to parse some code with AST, but I'm having an issue because of backslash continuation character.</p>

<p>When I have a continuation character <strong>\</strong>, textwrap will not manage to dedent the code, I would like to know how to get rid of it.</p>

<pre><code>code = """
    def foo():
        message = "This is a very long message that will probably need to wrap at the end of the line!\n \
And it actually did!"
"""

import textwrap
print textwrap.dedent(code)

import ast
ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code))
</code></pre>

<p>I'm adding more details to clarify the question:</p>

<p>I have a module nemo.py with the following content:</p>

<pre><code>class Foo(object):

    def bar(self):
        message = "This is a very long message that will probably need to wrap at the end of the line!\n \
And it actually did!"
</code></pre>

<p>and the main module trying to parse the code:</p>

<pre><code>import ast
import nemo
import inspect
import textwrap

code = str().join(inspect.getsourcelines(nemo.Foo.bar)[0])
ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code))
</code></pre>

<p>And the traceback:</p>

<pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/kelsolaar/Documents/Development/Research/_BI.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
    ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(code))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ast.py", line 37, in parse
    return compile(source, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)
  File "&lt;unknown&gt;", line 1
    def bar(self):
    ^
IndentationError: unexpected indent
</code></pre>
