How can I access elements in a tuple?

Question

A query to a database returns a tuple like this:

(u'Elia extends Feyenoord deal',)

Now I want to strip this down to the part which is in single quotes only, like a string. Something like:

'Elia extends Feyenoord deal'

How can I do this?

Related and a Possible duplicate [How to convert single element tuple into string?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/28666811) — Bhargav Rao, Jul 14 '16 at 20:01
[Python string prints as \[u'String'\]](http://stackoverflow.com/q/599625) — Bhargav Rao, Jul 14 '16 at 20:06
@CodeBunny This is just the way Python displays the string as Bhargav Rao has explained. You are probably using Python2.x, right? — plamut, Jul 14 '16 at 20:08
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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 14 '16 at 19:57

Simple, just select the first element of the tuple (with index 0), which is the string you want:

>>> result = (u'Elia extends Feyenoord deal',)
>>> result[0]
'Elia extends Feyenoord deal'
>>> type(result[0])
<class 'str'>  # would be <type 'unicode'> in Python2.x

How can I access elements in a tuple?

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