Creating a list that has strings not unicode

JacquelineAlessi

I am trying to use a search cursor to pull values as strings from a field and populate a list. Once the list is created, I need to loop through the list and pass the value be concatenated in a string that will then be passed to command line. 

In my screen shot below you can see that I tried to options.

Here is an example of my code: 

import arcpy
DeltaTable ='E:\\Data\\JRAlessi\\Conflation_URD_GPTest\\ConflationTest.gdb\\TestTable'
QTField = "QuarterTWNSHP"
cursor = arcpy.SearchCursor(DeltaTable, "FME_Status IS NULL")
QTSet = []
for row in cursor:
   row.getValue(str(QTField))
   QTset.append(str(row))

What am I doing wrong? when I go to print QTset I want to get back a true list that would look like this: 

['18644', '18643']

blake.terhune

Sorry @JacquelineAlessi, I did not notice you were using the legacy cursor, as @Luke_Pinner pointed out. I updated my code to use the new data access cursor, but the post from Luke is more complete.