s = "'This is a test'"
for repeat in range(3):
	bq = bashquote()
	bq.add(s)
	s = bq.result()
print s

...then you get a string that you can eval 3 times without losing any quoting - except for here documents. As another example, you could pass that 3-deep quoting into three chained ssh's without losing the original quoting.

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