Question

I have searched high and low for an answer to why query results returned in this format and how to convert to a list.

data = cursor.fetchall()

When I print data, it results in:
((‘car’,), (‘boat’,), (‘plane’,), (‘truck’,))

I want to have the results in a list as [“car”, “boat”, “plane”, “truck”]

Answer 1

It’s returning it in that way because a recordset is comprised of many rows of data, not a list of single elements.

You can flatten it if you want using a list comprehension:

data = [row[0] for row in cursor.fetchall()]