Trying to understand strings and lists of strings

[Konstantin23]

Lets say we have a string a = "apple" and we wish to add this variable in a list fruits = [], using fruits.append(a). But when we print the list, the string "apple" is stored like this in the list, ['apple']. So my question now is, why does python not store strings in double qoutes " " instead of single qoutes ' ' inside a list? or is there a workaround to store strings with double qoutes inside a list? like what's the process behind storing strings in an array or list