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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 quote(self, s):
 """Return a shell-escaped version of the string s."""


        if six.PY2:
            from pipes import quote
        else:
            from shlex import quote

        return quote(s)