Using list comprehension:
>>> a = []
>>> a.append((1,2,4))
>>> a.append((2,3,4))
>>> [x for xs in a for x in xs]
[1, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4]
Using itertools.chain.from_iterable
:
>>> import itertools
>>> list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(a))
[1, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4]