[Zope] Problem Inserting zsql query result

Greetings, I would like to insert the results of a query into another table and am doing this from a python script. I am setting the results of a queryequal to a variable with the following: variable = container.zsql_method(paramater=value)[0][0] This gives the results I want (in this case "0"), but when I try to insert this variable using another zsql method, I get the following error: "MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '0\n)'" The value I want is there, but it has a newline character also. I try removing using .replace but then I get the following error: 'long' object has no attribute 'replace' I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. Than you very much, Ivan