Python removes quotes

Question

I'm trying to make a simple gui with tkinter utilizing windows built-in search functionality. This is the code I'm having issues with.

#gets search keywords from user input and splits into list
keyword_list = self.entry.get()
    keyword_list = keyword_list.split()

    #creates empty string
    keyword_string = ""

    #fills empty string with list, appends necessary quotation marks
    for i in keyword_list:
        keyword_string += "\"" + i + "\""

    print(keyword_string)

    #runs cmd query of windows index
    subprocess.call("c:/users/jdoe/desktop/wssql.exe " +
                    "\"select system.ItemPathDisplay from systemindex
                    where contains(*,'" +
                    keyword_string +
                    "')\"")

With that code, if I enter two keywords into the input field, say "test1" and "test2", python will print keyword_string as this:

"test1""test2"

but, when keyword_string is used in the query it shows up as this:

test1test2

So, somewhere after the print command, Python is stripping the quotation marks from the strings?

Answer 1

Have you tried using two sets of quotation marks? Or a set of single quotation marks inside of a set of double quotation mark?