code: def quote_config(v):
      """Helper to perform minimal quoting of config keys/value parts
  
      Parameters
      ----------
      v : str
        To-be-quoted string
      """
      white = (" ", "\t")
      comment = ("#", ";")
      # backslashes need to be quoted in any case
      v = v.replace("\\", "\\\\")
      # must not have additional unquoted quotes
      v = v.replace('"', '\\"')
      if (
          v[0] in white
          or v[-1] in white
          or any(c in v for c in comment)
      ):
          # quoting the value due to leading/trailing whitespace
          # or occurrence of comment char
          v = '"{}"'.format(v)
      return v
  
imports: import json
  import logging
  import os
  import re
  import threading
  import warnings
  from collections import namedtuple
  from fasteners import InterProcessLock
  from functools import lru_cache, wraps
  from pathlib import Path
  import datalad
  from datalad.consts import DATASET_CONFIG_FILE
  from datalad.runner import CommandError, GitRunner, KillOutput, StdOutErrCapture
  from datalad.utils import getpwd, on_windows
label_desc: Use image node_id 9 for calling a global function with example usage: quote_config(v) and returns: v