ipython/ipython — Issue #1302: Input parsing with %prun clobbers escapes
Author: wesm
Created: 2012-01-20 20:01:39+00:00
State: open

Running this command, where `foo.csv` is a tab-separated file

```
In [3]: %prun -s cumulative table = read_table('foo.csv', sep="\t")
```

it blows up and I stepped up to the top level to see that `sep` has been passed as `t` and not `\t`