simple string manipulation in python

Question

How can I obtain the expected result below?

import glob
infiles = glob.glob('E:\\test\\*.txt')
print infiles
['E:\\test\\a.txt', 'E:\\test\\b.txt', 'E:\\test\\c.txt', 'E:\\test\\d.txt']

Expected result is:

'E:\\test\\a.txt','E:\\test\\b.txt','E:\\test\\c.txt','E:\\test\\d.txt'

My attempt is:

infiles = ','.join(x for x in infiles)
print infiles
E:\test\a.txt,E:\test\b.txt,E:\test\c.txt,E:\test\d.txt

Answer 1

Simply:

import glob
infiles = glob.glob('E:\\test\\*.txt')
print infiles.__str__()[1:-1]

print is actually print infiles.__str__() under the hood, and you only want to get rid of the [ and ]...

Answer 2

print ','.join(map(repr, infiles))

You're looking for an output containing the repr representations of the strings in the lists, not the literal character contents of the strings. Mapping repr over the list gets you that.