Splitting lines from a database query

[Peter Machell]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Peter Machell wrote:
>> ZeD wrote: <An excellent response providing code>
>>
>> Thanks very much ZeD. This will do what I need to.
>> The next step is to do some regex on the phone number to ensure it's 
>> local and correct. How can I split these up so each value has a key?
> 
> Well, you should try that, unless you intend to get the newsgroup to
> write your code for you.  Come back with your efforts and any problems
> you have with them.

As we say in Australia, fair enough.
I can almost do it this way:

for x in bar:
             fname = x[0]
             if fname == "":
                 fname == "None"
             sname = x[1]
             if sname == "":
                 sname == "None"

             print "<FNAME>"+fname+"</FNAME>"+"<SNAME>"+sname+"</SNAME>"

Except that I should be using a list and loop to do the null checking, 
and it still stops when (I think) it hits a blank value:
	TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

thanks,
Peter.