How to do Python string formatting without quotes?

I am writing a Python function that does string formatting for a SQL query. Due to this, the string formatting needs to be very precise.

Currently, I have a SQL query template string and I am trying to fill out values using str.format().

Imagine something like:

sql_query_template.format(arg1=arg1, arg2=arg2)

An issue I am running into is the placement of quotation marks of Python strings.

Desired result:

(ARRAY[‘blah’, ‘25’], ‘test_group_1’, '243'),(ARRAY[‘blah2’, '12'], ‘test_group_2', '21')

• The goal is to create tuples while using ARRAY[] keyword, it is important for ARRAY[] to not turn into ‘ARRAY[]’ or for the entire tuple to get encased by quotes -> SQL needs to treat the keywords as keywords.

Current result:

(‘ARRAY[blah, 25]’, ‘test_group_1’, '243'),(‘ARRAY[blah2, 12]’, ‘test_group_2', '21')

• Here ARRAY[] is being wrapped in quotation marks (ex: ‘ARRAY[blah, 25]')
• This is problematic because Presto won’t recognize ARRAY as a keyword and is treating ‘ARRAY[]’ as a string

Current snippet:

# dummy example:
test_dict = json.loads(
    json.dumps(
        [
            {
                "parameter_1": ["blah", "25"],
                "parameter_2": "test_group_1",
                "parameter_3": "243",
            },
            {
                "parameter_1": ["blah2", "12"],
                "parameter_2": "test_group_2",
                "parameter_3": "21",
            },
        ]
    )
)

list_of_tuples = []
for dict in test_dict:
    list_of_tuples.append(
        (
            "ARRAY[{}]".format(",".join(dict[“parameter_1"])),
            dict["parameter_2"],
            f"{dict[parameter_3]}",
        )
    )
formatted_tuples = ",".join(
    str(tup) for tup in list_of_tuples
)
print(sql_query_template.format(arg1=formatted_tuples))

Is it possible to write Python code in such a way where string formatting will insert certain parts that aren’t wrapped up in quotes?