title: Using %r, prevent 'this'
body: <p>Is there any way to avoid the single-quotes around a % string?</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>playCmd = """osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to play track %r'""" % theSong
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>that results in: ...play track 'theSong'
  not: ...play track theSong
  like I want.  I would just use playCmd.relpace, but because of the single-qoutes ('tell app...') before the single-quotes on theSong, I can't do this easily.  Any ideas?</p>