Convert a python list to string (the list includes some strings)

Question

I hope to convert a list of strings to a list of a long string. For example, I hope to convert ['c++', 'python', 'sklearn', 'java'] to ["'c++', 'python', 'sklearn', 'java'"]. Namely, the original list have some strings, the target list should have a long string which includes the small string.

I have tried the ' '.join([str(elem) for elem in s]), but the results are not in a list.

s = ['c++', 'python', 'sklearn', 'java']
listToStr = ' '.join([str(elem) for elem in s])
print listToStr

The expected output is:

["'c++', 'python', 'sklearn', 'java'"]

The actual output is:

c++ python sklearn java

Answer 1

This can be done using one line of code and no loop/join by turning the list to a string and taking the brackets off. Then wrap it in a list.

print [str(s)[1:-1]]

Answer 2

Join it with commas, add the single quotes and put it in a list:

myList= [", ".join(["'"+elem+"'" for elem in s])]