title: Getting second element of a tuple (in a list of tuples) as a string
body: <p>I have an output that is a list of tuples. It looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>annot1=[(402L, u"[It's very seldom that you're blessed to find your equal]"), 
          (415L, u'[He very seldom has them in this show or his movies]')…
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to use the second part of the tuple only to apply ‘split’ and get each word on the sentence separately. </p>
  
  <p>At this point, I’m not able to isolate the second part of the tuple (the text).</p>
  
  <p>This is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def scope_match(annot1):
      scope = annot1[1:]
      scope_string = ‘’.join(scope)
      scope_set = set(scope_string.split(' '))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get: </p>
  
  <p><code>TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, tuple found</code></p>
  
  <p>I tried to use annot1[1] but it gives me the second index of the text instead of the second element of the tuple.</p>