# Copyright (C) 2009, 2010  Roman Zimbelmann <romanz@lavabit.com>
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"""
Functions to escape metacharacters of arguments for shell commands.
"""

META_CHARS = (' ', "'", '"', '`', '&', '|', ';',
		'$', '!', '(', ')', '[', ']', '<', '>')
META_DICT = dict([(mc, '\\' + mc) for mc in META_CHARS])

def shell_quote(string):
	"""Escapes by quoting"""
	return "'" + str(string).replace("'", "'\\''") + "'"


def shell_escape(arg):
	"""Escapes by adding backslashes"""
	arg = str(arg)
	arg = arg.replace('\\', '\\\\') # make sure this comes at the start
	for k, v in META_DICT.items():
		arg = arg.replace(k, v)
	return arg