How to print variable inside quotation marks?

I would like to print a variable within quotation marks. I want to print out "variable"

I have tried a lot, what worked was:

print('"', variable, '"')

but then I have two spaces in the output:

" variable "

How can I print something within a pair of quotation marks?

you can use format:

>>> s='hello'
>>> print '"{}"'.format(s)
"hello"

Learn about format here:Format

In 3x you can use f:

>>> f'"{s}"'
'"hello"'