string.join question

[Alex Martelli]

mongo57a at comcast.net wrote:

> Trying to join a string as follows: string.join(['\,'aaa','\],'')
> (the last characters are 2 single quotes).
> I want a character string which looks like 'aaa' (with quotes). Anybody

Have you tried repr('aaa') ... ?  string.join (an old usage) or the
join method of string objects (a newer one) seem to have little to
do with the effect you say you want to achieve.


Alex