timeit.Timer(
    'words = [\'hello\', \'world\', \'you\', \'look\', \'nice\'] * 100; \', \'.join(\'"{0}"\'.format(w) for w in words)'
    ).timeit(1000)
timeit.Timer(
    'words = [\'hello\', \'world\', \'you\', \'look\', \'nice\'] * 100; \'"{}"\'.format(\'", "\'.join(words))'
    ).timeit(1000)
Join a list of strings in python and wrap each string in quotation marks