diff --git a/examples/partial_path_process.py b/examples/partial_path_process.py
index 08d368dc7..7903048cb 100644
--- a/examples/partial_path_process.py
+++ b/examples/partial_path_process.py
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@
 
 pop('../ls -l', shell=False)
 
-pop('c:\hello\something', shell=False)
+pop('c:\\hello\\something', shell=False)
 pop('c:/hello/something_else', shell=False)
diff --git a/tests/unit/core/test_util.py b/tests/unit/core/test_util.py
index 82b573cef..8d2833377 100644
--- a/tests/unit/core/test_util.py
+++ b/tests/unit/core/test_util.py
@@ -252,15 +252,15 @@ def test_escaped_representation_simple(self):
         self.assertEqual(res, b"ascii")
 
     def test_escaped_representation_valid_not_printable(self):
-        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"\u0000")
+        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"\\u0000")
         self.assertEqual(res, b"\\x00")
 
     def test_escaped_representation_invalid(self):
-        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"\uffff")
+        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"\\uffff")
         self.assertEqual(res, b"\\uffff")
 
     def test_escaped_representation_mixed(self):
-        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"ascii\u0000\uffff")
+        res = b_utils.escaped_bytes_representation(b"ascii\\u0000\\uffff")
         self.assertEqual(res, b"ascii\\x00\\uffff")
 
     def test_deepgetattr(self):