How to convert tuple values to strings?

[msn009]

i have a column in a dataframe that contains values in the form or tuples (example: ('A',) ) and I want to convert these values to string format so that ('A',) becomes 'A'
How do I do this in python for a dataframe? Thanks.

 

[jedishrfu]

There's str function which will print any instance in textual form which is great for debug but it might not be what you want.

To get the best results, you would need to loop over your tuples, extract the data and print it.

 

[wle]

t = ('A', 'p', 'p', 'l', 'e')
''.join(t)   # returns 'Apple'

 

[msn009]

thank you. in the end i decided to use a mapping method to convert the tuple values into a string format. it worked better for my situation