stripping punctuation from tuples

[Bruce Wolk]

How about this?
>>> a=[('Alan Tsang',),('George Bush',)]
>>> b = [i[0].split() for i in a]
>>> b
[['Alan', 'Tsang'], ['George', 'Bush']]

Cheers, Bruce

Louis Luangkesorn wrote:

> How do you strip the punctuation from tuples?  In particular, say I have
> a tuple a[10] (which happened to come from a not very well designed
> database)
>
> >>> a[10]
> ('Alan Tsang',)
>
> How do I get something to say 'Alan Tsang'  with out the parens or the
> ','
>
> Or, what I'm really trying to do is make this so
> >>>b = breakname(a[10])
> >>>b[0], b[1]
>
> 'Alan','Tsang'
>
> I've tried to do:
> >>> d = split(str(a[0]))
> >>> d
> ["('Aaron", "Fan',)"]
> >>> d[0]
> "('Aaron"
> >>> d[1]
> "Fan',)"
>
> But that is not quite what I want.
> Many thanks.
> Louis
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