[Python] Python list of tuples while iterating unable to see an element but when printing it...

I am using regular expression to get the filenames and count from a SAS log using Python. Pattern I am using

pattern = re.compile(r'filename="([^"]+_\d{8})".*?Note:\s+There were (\d+)', re.DOTALL)


I am getting the list of tuples with filenames and count. This is working fine. But when I am trying to get the filenames seperately based on below code -

data = []
[data.append({'filename':filename, 'count':count }) for filename, count in file_and_cnt]


One of the element is skipping. When I do this

for elm in file_and_cnt:
print(elm[0])


The filename is still skipping. But when I do the below -

for elm in file_and_cnt:
if 'target' in elm[0]:
print(elm[0])


I am getting all the element, earlier the element which was missing was 'target' file only and I can see the missing element. I tried to strip, remove bad characters, changed the encoding while doing finall, finditer and all it did not worked.

Can you please help?

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