[82] syntax error on escaped quotes in double quoted strings

[prmtl]

Reported by [email protected], 2013-05-01T05:34:13Z

According to http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html, an ID can be:
...
'any double-quoted string ("...") possibly containing escaped quotes (")1;'

pydot does not properly read double quoted strings with escaped quotes

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. pydot.graph_from_dot_data("graph G { a [test="\"escaped quotes\""] }")

or

1. create the following DOT file:

graph G {
  a [test="\"escaped quotes\""]
}

2. pydot.graph_from_dot_file("file.dot")

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected output: <pydot.Dot object at 0xb483de8c>
output:

graph G { a [test="\"escaped quotes\""] }
            ^
Expected "}" (at char 12), (line:1, col:13)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

pydot 1.0.28; Python 2.7.3; Gentoo/Linux 3.0.6

Please provide any additional information below.

A suggested patch is attached. Apply to dot_parser.py
patch -Np1 dot_parser.py escChar.patch
Attached escChar.patch (view on Gist)
From: https://code.google.com/p/pydot/issues/detail?id=82

[prmtl]

Comment by sandro.tosi, 2014-03-21T14:35:59Z

JFYI, i'm about to apply the patch in the Debian package