This question might better be titled "How do I convert a list of dictionaries into a list of tuples," except I'm not 100% sure that's correct.

I am modifying a scraper I found online, which grabs data from a database using .fetchall(). 

```
cur.execute("SELECT num, location FROM table WHERE location='My Town';")
the_query = cur.fetchall()

```

The rest of the script thus expects `the_query` to be a list of tuples, which I *think* means `the_query` would look like this:

```
[(081143282, 'My Town'),(091338218, 'My Town')] ...

```

My modified version of this scraper must grab the data from a JSON feed, not from an sqlite database using fetchall. Using demjson.decode(), I end up with data like this:

```
[{u'num': u'081143282', u'location': u'My Town'}, {u'num': u'081143282', u'location': u'My Town'}]

```

Again, I *think* this is a list of dictionaries, but since I am still learning these different structures, I may be mistaken.

I have tried using .item() and zip(\*) to convert the result of demjson.decode() into a list of tuples, but so far I can't make it work. 

Can anyone guide me through this?