解码元组中的unicode字符串

Question

I have the following set of simple examples of code, none of which are doing what I want:

import json

a = "u'Kolo Tour\xe9'"
print a

b = (a.decode('cp1252'), 1)
print b

c = (a, 1)
print c

d = ','.join((b.decode('cp1252')))
print d

The final example is throwing up an error about a tuple having no method for decoding. What I want my final item to look like is:

Kolo Touré,1

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and what the correct syntax I need to fix my issue is please?

Thanks

EDIT:

A segment of the actual source data I am attempting to parse in my full scale code prints like this to the screen in both command shell and python IDLE:

(u'Jos\xe9 Enrique', 14230, 29, 3, u'DL', 184, 76, True, False)

Answer 1

Printing a tuple displays the representation of the contents, so it is extremely unlikely that you have a unicode literal in a string.

newdata = (olddata[0], 1)

EDIT:

Based on your latest output:

u'{},1'.format(olddata[0])

but I'm wondering if you don't want to use csv instead for output generation.