Hi All, At the risk of looking stupid would someone mind showing me how this is done in this case. I can't remove the brackets from (('Bob', 'Mary'), ('Spam', 'chips')) to give(('Bob', 'Mary', 'Spam', 'chips')) . From what Phil and Sm said I thought it would be easy. I've tried using list( ). I've had a go at referencing the individual elements... Anyone? Thanks M