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

I went ahead and implemented repr_double by using stdout's repr_single

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

def repr_double(s):
    single = repr_single(s)
    return '"' + single[1:-1].replace('"', '\\"').replace('\\\'', '\'') + '"'

def test_single():
    assert r"'foobar'" == repr_single('foobar')
    assert r"'\'foobar'" == repr_single('\'foobar')
    assert "'\\'foobar'" == repr_single("'foobar")

def test_double():
    assert r'"foobar"' == repr_double("foobar")
    assert '"\'foobar"' == repr_double("'foobar")
    assert '"\\"foobar"' == repr_double('"foobar')