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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):
 """Determine whether or not to escape content of this class. This defaults to `True` for most classes. """

        if self._escape is not None:
            return self._escape
        if self._default_escape is not None:
            return self._default_escape
        return True