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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(ident):
 """Escape identifier."""


    string = []
    length = len(ident)
    start_dash = length > 0 and ident[0] == '-'
    if length == 1 and start_dash:
        # Need to escape identifier that is a single `-` with no other characters
        string.append('\\{}'.format(ident))
    else:
        for index, c in enumerate(ident):
            codepoint = util.uord(c)
            if codepoint == 0x00:
                string.append('\ufffd')
            elif (0x01 <= codepoint <= 0x1F) or codepoint == 0x7F:
                string.append('\\{:x} '.format(codepoint))
            elif (index == 0 or (start_dash and index == 1)) and (0x30 <= codepoint <= 0x39):
                string.append('\\{:x} '.format(codepoint))
            elif (
                codepoint in (0x2D, 0x5F) or codepoint >= 0x80 or (0x30 <= codepoint <= 0x39) or
                (0x30 <= codepoint <= 0x39) or (0x41 <= codepoint <= 0x5A) or (0x61 <= codepoint <= 0x7A)
            ):
                string.append(c)
            else:
                string.append('\\{}'.format(c))
    return ''.join(string)