From 0dde18bb5684c42ac7c7c60eb4029095ab0016c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Bonnici <marc.bonnici@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:06:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] utils/misc: Add method to escape spaces

---
 devlib/utils/misc.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/devlib/utils/misc.py b/devlib/utils/misc.py
index 857e99d..ec28c0b 100644
--- a/devlib/utils/misc.py
+++ b/devlib/utils/misc.py
@@ -414,6 +414,11 @@ def escape_double_quotes(text):
     return re.sub(r'\\("|\')', r'\\\\\1', text).replace('\"', '\\\"')
 
 
+def escape_spaces(text):
+    """Escape spaces in the specified text"""
+    return text.replace(' ', '\ ')
+
+
 def getch(count=1):
     """Read ``count`` characters from standard input."""
     if os.name == 'nt':