inserting characters at the start and end of a string

Question

I am new and trying to find a way to insert a number of L\'s at the beginning and end of a string. So if I have a string which says

\"where did I put my cupcake thi

Answer 1

For completeness along with the other answers:

yourstring = "L%sLL" % yourstring

Or, more forward compatible with Python 3.x:

yourstring = "L{0}LL".format(yourstring)