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For loop in Jinja2 splitting the chars in nested list, instead of returning whole of nested list

My doubts list is [[‘a’,’b’,’This is a sentence’]] My HTML (Jinja) is

{% for x in doubts %}
{{ x }}
{% endfor %}

My Flask is :-

connection = mysql.connector.connect(host='127.0.0.1',database='wizlearn',user='root',password='pokemon2345')
    cursor = connection.cursor(buffered=True)
    login = session['login']
    admission_no = login[4]
    cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM doubts WHERE student = {0}'.format(admission_no))
    result = json.dumps(list(cursor.fetchall()))
    app.logger.debug(result)
    cursor.close()
    connection.close()
    return render_template('doubt_history.html', doubts=result)

x is giving a,b,T,h,i,s,i,s,a,s,e,n,t,e,n,c,e [Each char one iteration]

I expected a,b,This is a sentence. [Only one iteration]

How do I resolve this? Thanks in advance!

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Answer

You have dumped the output to json for some reason. Don’t do that. Pass the value of cursor.fetchall() directly to the template.

Also, never ever pass user input – or any data – directly into an SQL query via string interpolation; this opens you to SQL injection attacks. Always use parameters:

cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM doubts WHERE student = %s', (admission_no))

(You haven’t said what db you are using, if you are using sqlite you will need to use ? instead of %s there.)

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