Is there something like a reverse eval() function?

Question

Imagine the following problem: you have a dictionary of some content in python and want to generate python code that would create this dict. (which is like eval but in reverse) Is there something that can do this?

Scenario: I am working with a remote python interpreter. I can give source files to it but no input. So I am now looking for a way to encode my input data into a python source file.

Example:

d = {'a': [1,4,7]}
str_d = reverse_eval(d)
# "{'a': [1, 4, 7]}"
eval(str_d) == d

Answer 1

repr(thing)

will output text that when executed will (in most cases) reproduce the dictionary.