# This file is part of the PySide project.
#
# Copyright (C) 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
# Copyright (C) 2010 Riverbank Computing Limited.
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# Contact: PySide team <pyside@openbossa.org>
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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# version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
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import re


def as_string(obj, encode=True):
    if isinstance(obj, str):
        s = '"' + _escape(obj) + '"'
        
        return s

    return str(obj)


_esc_regex = re.compile(r"(\"|\'|\\)")

def _escape(text):
    # This escapes any escaped single or double quote or backslash.
    x = _esc_regex.sub(r"\\\1", text)

    # This replaces any '\n' with an escaped version and a real line break.
    return re.sub(r'\n', r'\\n"\n"', x)
