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
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username
foobar
#endif