Java equivalent of Python repr()?

Question

Is there a Java method that works like Python\'s repr? For example, assuming the function were named repr,

\"foo\\n\\tbar\".repr()

would re

Answer 1

If there were such a method, it would make writing quines in Java really easy, because it would solve the problem of escaping the quotes. Seeing as the simplest quines in Java all require manually inserting the quote character manually with its character code, it is unlikely that such a method exists.