Joining elements of a list

Question

I have a list of tuples like:

data = [(\'a1\', \'a2\'), (\'b1\', \'b2\')]

And I want to generate a string like this: \"(\'a1\', \'a2\

Answer 1

Discard the opening and closing brackets from str() output:

>>> data = [('a1', 'a2'), ('b1', 'b2')]
>>> str(data)
"[('a1', 'a2'), ('b1', 'b2')]"
>>> str(data)[1:-1]
"('a1', 'a2'), ('b1', 'b2')"
>>>