title: extracting values from list of tuples (in this case just one tuple in the list)
body: <p>I'm working in python GAE.</p>
  
  <p>Can't figure out why I can't extract values from my tuple using <code>[index]</code>.  From the logs, I can see that I do have a value in my <code>leveloneAdd</code> variable e.g. (<code>'english'</code>, <code>'subject'</code>) - but then when I'm looping through my tuple of 1, I'm getting empty in my variable <code>tag</code> and <code>htype</code> - when I'm expecting the <code>tag = 'english'</code> and the <code>htype = 'subject'</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone have any thoughts?</p>
  
  <pre><code>for each in leveloneAdd:
      tag = each[0]
      htype = each[1]
      q1 = Level_1_Headings.all().filter("name1 =",tag).filter("heading_type =",htype).get()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I did the repr in the logs as Martijn suggested and here are my logs:
  thanks for all your input!  love this board - here are my logs using suggestion from Martijn --- I think it is interpreting the whole thing like a string --- </p>
  
  <pre><code>INFO     2013-01-14 19:28:17,030 main.py:291] each is ('math', 'subject')
  INFO     2013-01-14 19:28:17,030 main.py:292] u"('math', 'subject')"
  INFO     2013-01-14 19:28:17,030 main.py:294] tag is (
  INFO     2013-01-14 19:28:17,030 main.py:296] heading type is '
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It looks like the string is being viewed as a string?  How do I convert this to reading as a true tuple.  Here is my original code where the tuple was supposed to be created (it then goes to client and then back as this as shown in the log.)</p>
  
  <p>for x in h1:
       listone.append((str(x.name1),str(x.heading_type)))</p>
  
  <p>The values above are in an input select drop box form
  AND then from server side python - i get the values by<br>
      leveloneAdd = (self.request.get_all("list_uno[]"))</p>
  
  <p>Sorry if these seem basic questions, I'm a beginner trying to get better!!</p>