In My SQL it looks like this

mysql> select plaintext from revisions limit 1;
+-----------------------+
| plaintext             |
+-----------------------+
| Wow, this didn't work |
+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

but in python it is some kind of array object, why?

>>> connection
<_mysql.connection open to 'localhost' at 81c9874>
>>> c = connection.cursor()
>>> c.execute("select plaintext from revisions limit 1")
1L
>>> c.fetchone()
(array('c', "Wow, this didn't work"),)
>>>