Grammatically correct human readable string from list (with Oxford comma)

Question

I want a grammatically correct human-readable string representation of a list. For example, the list ['A', 2, None, 'B,B', 'C,C,C'] should return the string A, 2, None, B,B, and C,C,C. This contrived example is somewhat necessary. Note that the Oxford comma is relevant for this question.

I tried ', '.join(seq) but this doesn't produce the expected result for the aforementioned example.

Note the preexisting similar questions:

• How to print a list in Python "nicely" doesn't concern with a grammatically correct human-readable string.
• Grammatical List Join in Python is without the Oxford comma. The example and answers there are correspondingly different and they do not work for my question.

Answer 1

This function works by handling small lists differently than larger lists.

from typing import Any, List

def readable_list(seq: List[Any]) -> str:
    """Return a grammatically correct human readable string (with an Oxford comma)."""
    # Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53981846/
    seq = [str(s) for s in seq]
    if len(seq) < 3:
        return ' and '.join(seq)
    return ', '.join(seq[:-1]) + ', and ' + seq[-1]

Usage examples:

readable_list([])
''

readable_list(['A'])
'A'

readable_list(['A', 2])
'A and 2'

readable_list(['A', None, 'C'])
'A, None, and C'

readable_list(['A', 'B,B', 'C,C,C'])
'A, B,B, and C,C,C'

readable_list(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
'A, B, C, and D'