Strings show as brackets with a 'u'.

[goldtech]

> Rick gave you some good advice, perhaps worth re-reading. What you need
> are investigative skills, and not just bits of data.


Totally agree. beginning to see what's going on. I'm not specifically
accessing the list element with n (vs. n[0]). Printing n uses repr
which gives the unicode "tag".  Something akin to this...thanks for
showing what i need to read up on...