My python print is returning: text:'my string/text' instead of: my string/text

[dalearyous]

fname_text = worksheet.row(current_row)[0]
print (str(fname_text))

this returns my text from the excel cell like this: text:'my string/text' ... i don't want the text:' part.

what can i do to just make it return: my string/text

 

[Markbnj]

You shouldn't be calling str() unless you specifically want to convert a non-string object into a string representation. If the type of fname_text after the assignment is 'str' or 'unicode' then drop the str() call and just print it.

Edit: ah wait, read this again. You're probably getting back a cel object or something. See if it has a property to access the text as a string (you can do dir(fname_text) in the shell to see its properties and methods).