Is unicode_escape broken?

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

I also believe this is a bug.

Here's an even shorter demonstration of the behavior:
>>> u"\\".encode("unicode_escape").decode("unicode_escape")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode byte 0x5c in
position 0: \ at end of string

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Jeff
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