Create a concatenated string from json object in Python

Question

From a json file, I have extracted the following:

[u'001', u'002', u'003', u'004', u'005', u'006', u'007', u'009', u'041', 
u'043', u'050', u'099', u'983']

But, what I need is to create a string like this (this will be part of a SQL statement)

str = """not in ('001','002','003','004','005','006','007','009','041','043','050','099','983')"""

I am new to this. Do you have any clues for me? This will be done in Python.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

str.join wrapped in a str.format does the job. First & last quotes and parenthesis are handled by format , whereas middle quotes & commas are handled by str.join

s = [u'001', u'002', u'003', u'004', u'005', u'006', u'007', u'009', u'041',
u'043', u'050', u'099', u'983']

print("not in ('{}')".format("','".join(s)))

result:

not in ('001','002','003','004','005','006','007','009','041','043','050','099','983')

note that str(tuple(s)) generates the same single quoted string, but I don't like relying on the representation of python objects.