import re import sys import re if sys.platform.startswith("win"): def quote(value): return '"{}"'.format('{}'.format(value).replace('"', '""')) else: # POSIX shell def quote(value): return "'{}'".format('{}'.format(value).replace("'", "'\\''")) def maybe_quote(string): return '"{}"'.format(string) if not re.match(r'^".*"$', string) else string