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tests: fix up some lax escaping in test-template-basic.t

These misfired escapes turn into hard errors in Python 3.7, and I'd
really rather we not work around it. We should *probably* try and find
a way to proactively warn users about invalid escape sequences.

There's one more failure of this type in this file on Python 3.7, but
I can't figure out the issue. It'll need to be corrected in a
follow-up.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3843

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