escaping quotes

From: John Salerno <johnjsal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:39:17 GMT

I'm reading through the tutorial and found this in section 3:

>>> '"Isn\'t," she said.'
'"Isn\'t," she said.'

Why doesn't the escape sequence work in this case?
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