How to dump json without quotes in python

Question

Here is how I dump a file

with open(\'es_hosts.json\', \'w\') as fp:
  json.dump(\',\'.join(host_list.keys()), fp)

The results is

Answer 1

Before doing a string replace, you might want to strip the quotation marks:

print '"a,b,c"'.strip('"')

Output:

a,b,c

That's closer to what you want to achieve. Even just removing the first and the last character works: '"a,b,c"'[1:-1].

But have you looked into this question?