/lib/ansible/parsing/quoting.py

 1# (c) 2014 James Cammarata, <jcammarata@ansible.com>
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17
18# Make coding more python3-ish
19from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
20__metaclass__ = type
21
22
23def is_quoted(data):
24    return len(data) > 1 and data[0] == data[-1] and data[0] in ('"', "'") and data[-2] != '\\'
25
26
27def unquote(data):
28    ''' removes first and last quotes from a string, if the string starts and ends with the same quotes '''
29    if is_quoted(data):
30        return data[1:-1]
31    return data