Bug report

Commit 15409c7 to close PR #26330 introduced a regression in the stdlib netrc.py that causes backslashes to be stripped out of tokens. As an example, the password extracted from the following .netrc file

machine my.host.com login user password mypass\word

will be mypassword instead of mypass\word. Same behavior would happen for login or account tokens.

Your environment

• CPython versions tested on: >=3.11

• PR: gh-99080: Preserve backslash character not used to escape quotes in .netrc files #99088