Merge from 3.x: PR #3796

Fixes #3788

Author: ccordoba12

Diff for: spyder/utils/misc.py

@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ def remove_backslashes(path):
             path = path[:-1]
         # Replacing backslashes by slashes
         path = path.replace('\\', '/')
+        path = path.replace('/\'', '\\\'')
     return path