Python Unicode Output Format

Question

In Python I pull in data via Win32Com as a tuple:

((u' 863579XK9 ',),)

How can I parse this so that I am left with just 863579XK9 so I can write that to a file?

Answer 1

data = ((u'863579XK9',),)
print data[0][0] # prints "863579XK9"

Answer 2

>>> print ((u'863579XK9',),)[0][0]
863579XK9

Answer 3

Since this is a unicode string, you'd want to write it to a unicode encoded file:

import codecs
myfile = codecs.open('myfile.txt', encoding='utf8', mode='w')
data = ((u'863579XK9',),) 
myfile.write(data[0][0].encode('utf8'))
myfile.close()

See Reading and Writing Unicode Data from the Python Unicode HOWTO.