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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(self, escape_func, quote_func=quote_spaces):
 """Escape the string with the supplied function. The function is expected to take an arbitrary string, then return it with all special characters escaped and ready for passing to the command interpreter. After calling this function, the next call to str() will return the escaped string. """


        if self.is_literal():
            return escape_func(self.data)
        elif ' ' in self.data or '\t' in self.data:
            return quote_func(self.data)
        else:
            return self.data