Simple question about double quotes

[mh121]

Hello,

I want to add quotes to the front and of strings. That is, I want to turn a list of strings like

Strawberry
Chocolate
Vanilla

into the following list:

"Strawberry "
"Chocolate"
"Vanilla"

I have noticed that a command like
string.replace( x,x[0],"\"\""+x[0])
will put two double quotes in front of a string, but I just want one double quote in front (and one in back).

How do I do this?

[ghostdog74]

Hello,

I want to add quotes to the front and of strings. That is, I want to turn a list of strings like

Strawberry
Chocolate
Vanilla

into the following list:

"Strawberry "
"Chocolate"
"Vanilla"

I have noticed that a command like
string.replace( x,x[0],"\"\""+x[0])
will put two double quotes in front of a string, but I just want one double quote in front (and one in back).

How do I do this?

there are many ways, one of which is:

>>> s="strawberry"
>>> s="%s%s%s" % ('"',s,'"')
>>> print s
"strawberry"
>>>

[bartonc]

Hello,

I want to add quotes to the front and of strings. That is, I want to turn a list of strings like

Strawberry
Chocolate
Vanilla

into the following list:

"Strawberry "
"Chocolate"
"Vanilla"

I have noticed that a command like
string.replace( x,x[0],"\"\""+x[0])
will put two double quotes in front of a string, but I just want one double quote in front (and one in back).

How do I do this?

You can use double quotes inside single quotes, and vice versa, as if they are any other character:[CODE=python]
>>> print '"strawberry "'
"strawberry "
>>> print "'strawberr y'"
'strawberry'
>>>
>>> fruit = 'strawberry'
>>> print "'%s'" %fruit
'strawberry'
>>> print '"%s"' %fruit
"strawberry "
>>>[/CODE]