Is there any way to make repr(aString) use double quotes?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters wrote:

>tweedgeezer at hotmail.com (Jeremy Fincher) wrote previously:
>|If it's not, then is it possible to achieve the same thing (everything
>|escaped properly, etc.) through other means?
>
>It's not beautiful, but this does what you want:
>
>    '"%s"' % repr(aString)[1:-1]
>  
>

Except when there's a " character in the string ;) .

def SFString_vrmlstr( value, lineariser=None):
    """Convert the given value to a VRML97 representation"""
    return '"%s"'%(
        '\\"'.join(
            '\\\\'.join(
                value.split('\\')
            ).split('"')
        )
    )

But that doesn't do any escaping of characters (e.g. \xff), so there's 
more to be done :) ,
Mike