I know from the title you might think that this is a duplicate but it\'s not.
for id,row in enumerate(rows): columns = row.findall(\"td\") teamName = co
That looks like you have a string inside a list:
["blbal"]
To get the string just index l = ["blbal"] print(l[0]) -> "blbal".
l = ["blbal"]
print(l[0]) -> "blbal"
If it is a string use str.strip '["blbal"]'.strip("[]") or slicing '["blbal"]'[1:-1] if they are always present.
str.strip
'["blbal"]'.strip("[]")
'["blbal"]'[1:-1]