python - 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()

print repr("test")
'test'
print repr("test'")
"test'"
print repr("test"")
'test"'
print repr("test'"")
'test'"'

so the last one actually does, what I want, but I don't want to add always " to get the single quotes.

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Edit: I am not going to mark an answer as accepted since, as pointed out by @martijn-pieters, I was using repr() for purposes it is not intended for.

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.