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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def escape(string, escape_pattern):
 """Assistant function for string escaping"""

    try:
        return string.translate(escape_pattern)
    except AttributeError:
        warnings.warn("Non-string-like data passed. "
                      "Attempting to convert to 'str'.")
        return str(string).translate(tag_escape)