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

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

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]

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