How to reset my MacBook Pro for re-sale

I'm thinking of selling my 2010 MacBook Pro, which I bought with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. When selling previous Macs, I've deleted everything, including other user accounts and then re-installed the OS from the supplied CDs or DVD. This then leaves a new and pristine condition for the new owner to set-up as required.
However, I'm currently using Lion, which is not available on a disk. So my question is, how do I get back to a new version of Lion ready for my Mac's new owner to set-up as their own?
I've read on these forums about booting and holding down the Alt key in order to boot from the Restore partition, which hopefully has a bootable copy of Lion. Other threads suggest that I should Show Package Contents of the downloaded Lion file and burn the DMG to a DVD using Disc Utility. I guess that this will produce a software update disc and that the new owner will still need to boot initially with the Snow Leopard disc and follow the software updates until a point is reached whereby the new Lion disc will work.
I want to sell this as having OS X 10.7.3 Lion - I've paid for the upgrade and wish to pass this to the new owner.
Any thoughts or advice gratefully received.

The other person can do illegal things on your old machine or worst set you up. Which you will have to hire a computer specialist to prove your innocence, if there is evidence to be found, one simple mistake of missed evidence and you could be in serious trouble, fighting your case from a prison cell hoping to get a retrial.
When you erase the drive from the 10.6 disk, select the entire internal drive on a far left, not the slightly indented partition underneath it, and use the Erase with Zero option at least, or 7x for military/government grade erasures.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3191
The way technology is recording everything we are doing, you can't afford to take any chances, break from your machine, break from it completely. Let them install Lion with their AppleID, then they won't have any trouble updating to 10.8 or even 10.9., getting redownloads if they need it.

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