Unpacking a 1-tuple in a list of length 1

Question

Suppose I have a tuple in a list like this:

>>> t = [("asdf", )]

I know that the list always contains one 1-tuple. Currently I do this:

>>> dummy, = t
>>> value, = dummy
>>> value
'asdf'

Is there a shorter and more elegant way to do this?

Answer 1

Try

(value,), = t

Answer 2

>>> t = [("asdf", )]
>>> t[0][0]
'asdf'