How do I enclose a variable within single quotations in python? It's probably very simple but I can't seem to get it! I need to url-encode the variable `term`. `Term` is entered in a form by a user and is passed to a function where it is url-encoded `term=urllib.quote(term)`. If the user entered "apple computer" as their term, after url-encoding it would be "apple%20comptuer". What I want to do is have the term surrounded by single-quotes before url encoding, so that it will be "'apple computer'" then after url-encoding "%23apple%20computer%23". I need to pass the term to a url and it won't work unless I use this syntax. Any suggestions?

Sample Code:

```
import urllib2
import requests    

def encode():
        import urllib2
        query= avariable #The word this variable= is to be enclosed by single quotes
        query = urllib2.quote(query)
        return dict(query=query)

def results():

    bing = "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/Web?Query=%(query)s&$top=50&$format=json"
    API_KEY = 'akey'

    r = requests.get(bing % encode(), auth=('', API_KEY))
    return r.json

```