How do I replace quotation marks, brackets and numbers from array?

Question

I have a list of tuples:

mylist = [('Bill', 1), ('John', 1), ('Tony', 2), ('Phill', 2)]

I want to remove the quotation marks and the numbers so only names would remain.

I want something like this:

[Bill, John, Tony,  Phill]

Answer 1

Try a list comprehension:

mylist = [('Bill', 1), ('John', 1), ('Tony', 2), ('Phill', 2)]
print([x for x, y in mylist])

Output:

['Bill', 'John', 'Tony', 'Phill']

Or if you also want without quotes, try:

print('[' + ', '.join([x for x, y in mylist]) + ']')

Or zip(*...):

print('[' + ', '.join(list(zip(*mylist))[0]) + ']')

Both output:

[Bill, John, Tony, Phill]