How to break down tuple from Python to PHP - php

Question

I'm using HTTP post request from Codeigniter to python and return a tuple from MySQL to python
Codeigniter controller:
$data['email'] = $this->input->post("email");
$url = 'http://domain/path';
$data = array('email' => $data['email']);
// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data),
),
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
var_dump($result);
Python code:
elif self.path=="/forgotpass":
print "forgot password module"
form = cgi.FieldStorage(
fp=self.rfile,
headers=self.headers,
environ={'REQUEST_METHOD':'POST',
'CONTENT_TYPE':self.headers['Content-Type'],
})
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
self.send_header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin","http://domain")
self.end_headers()
#print form['email'].value
email = str(form["email"].value)
sql = "SELECT email_address, personal_id from personal_info where email_address='"+email+"'"
result = validate(sql)
print result
#print email;
self.wfile.write(result)
def validate(sql):
try:
db = MySQLdb.connect("localhost","root","password","schema" )
cnn = db.cursor()
cnn.execute(sql)
return cnn.fetchone()
cnn.close()
except MySQLdb, e:
print "Error validate function"
The display is, I think this is now a string format.
string(36) "('jerahmeel.acebuche#smsgt.com', 2L)"
In a simple Codeigniter connecting to a model.
The result of an array from mysql is:
array (column => value) etc etc..
You could display that array using foreach and $item->data;
But this result came from python which is a tuple and returning it to PHP is a different approach.
How will I break this tuple in PHP? or should I break it on python and return it to PHP?