I am trying to store a string in variable `A` which contains:

```
"'D:\\Work\\B1.tif';'D:\\Work\\B2.tif'"

```

I have two variables that store the locations of `B1.tif` and `B2.tif`:

```
X = "D:\\Work\\B1.tif"
Y = "D:\\Work\\B2.tif"

```

However, when I try to combine all the strings into a variable 'A':

```
A = '"' + "'" + X + "'" + ";" + "'" + Y + "'" + '"'

```

This is what it stores as:

```
'"\'D:\\Work\\B1.tif\';\'D:\\Work\\B2.tif\'"'

```

When I `print` `A` it displays:

```
"'D:\Work\B1.tif';'D:\Work\B2.tif'"

```

It seems that a backslash (`\`), that separates double quotes (`"`) and single quotes (`"`), are automatically stored in the string. How do I store double quotes and single quotes in a string without the backslash separating the quotes?