py3: call codecs.escape_encode() directly
string_escape doesn't exist on Python 3, but fortunately the undocumented
codecs.escape_encode() function exists on CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.5 and PyPy 5.6.
So let's use it for now.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/23151714
$ hg init
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Am t
adding a
$ hg mv a b
$ hg ci -Am t1
$ hg debugrename b
b renamed from a:b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3
$ hg mv b a
$ hg ci -Am t2
$ hg debugrename a
a renamed from b:37d9b5d994eab34eda9c16b195ace52c7b129980
$ hg debugrename --rev 1 b
b renamed from a:b789fdd96dc2f3bd229c1dd8eedf0fc60e2b68e3