Force repr() to use single quotes

Question

I have a question, is there a way to \"force\" repr() to create always single quotes around a string?

This happens when I only use repr()

Answer 1

Well, if your object is always a string you could do this:

def repr_single(s):
    return "'" + repr('"' + s)[2:]

print repr_single("test'")
'test\''

But as Martijn Pieters asked I'm curious as to your use case here.