Newbie: adding string values to a list?

[planetthoughtful]

Hi All,

Sorry for the influx of newbie questions -- I'm trying to figure these
things out on my own before bothering the community, but a lot of bits
and pieces are escaping me at the moment.

I'm retrieving a result set from an SQLite db (using the APSW module)
and I want to add the value from one of the fields in the result set to
a list. My current code looks something like:

result = []
for name in cursor.execute("SELECT name, address FROM contacts ORDER BY
name"):
    result.extend(name)

print result

For reasons I (obviously) don't understand, the "name" values get
broken up into each individual letter of the values in the name field
in the result list.

So, if the table contained records:

Fred
Dave

When I "print result" I get:

['F','r','e','d','D','a','v','e']

What I'm looking for is:

['Fred','Dave']

Can anyone give me some advice on what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks and much warmth,

planetthoughtful