How to print literal/quoted string in python for safety purpose?

Given the following python script:

s = "hello world"
print(s)

When you run it you will get

hello world

If I want the output to be

"hello world"

Is there any build-in quote/escape method can do this? For example

s = "hello world"
print(quote(s))

Here is my real world use case: I want to run glob on a remote machine via fabric. And the search pattern of glob is provided by user. So I need to ensure the string are quoted properly. Here is the sample code (I already know repr is the right method)

import shlex

glob_pattern = 'some-data/*'  # user input, maybe malform

script = 'from glob import glob; print(glob({}))'.format(repr(glob_pattern))
cmd = 'python -c {}'.format(shlex.quote(script))

connection.run(cmd)  # use a fabric connection to run script on remote node

Yes, there is --> print(repr(s))

Output:

'hello world'

You can read more about repr() for example here --> <https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-repr-function/>

You can use repr to produce a valid literal of your string. However, instead of producing a valid Python string literal inside a valid bash literal, you should probably pursue something like this instead:

from shlex import quote

command = f'''echo -n {quote(s)} | python -c 'from glob import glob; import sys; print(glob(sys.stdin.read()))'''

Keep your Python code static and supply arguments to it, in this case via stdin.