Reading list items without brackets and quotes

[jesse68]

These brackets and quotes always cause me grief.

If I create the list from reading a csv file then print the list, it prints with brackets.

import csv
with open ('csvtest2.csv','r') as csv_file:
    reader =csv.reader(csv_file)
    included_cols = [0]
    next(reader) # skip first row
    gateways  =[]
    for row in reader:
        content = list(row[i] for i in included_cols)
        gateways.append (content)

print(*gateways, sep = "\n")

OUTPUT:
['NODE001']
['NODE002']
['NODE003']
['NODE004']

This breaks my SSH API code which appears to be reading the item with the brackets and not the actual item. If I can get print to print correctly then my app should work. The problem appears to be how the list is written. This shouldn't be that hard. Help.. please?


If I create the list on the fly eg. list=["item1", "item2", "item3"] it prints only the items without bracket and quotes.

gateways = ["NODE001", "NODE002", "NODE003", "NODE004"]
print(*gateways, sep = "\n")

OUTPUT:
NODE001
NODE002
NODE003
NODE004

The SSH API works fine with above.

Thanks much!