title: Trying to get one cell's values with MySQLdb
body: <p>I am trying to get a single cell of values from MySQLdb, in Python. Here's my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fname = c.execute("""SELECT fname from employees WHERE user = %s;""", (useruname))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However what I get is "1L", which is not what I want - fname should contain a string, not a long integer.</p>
  
  <p>Why would it do this?</p>