Best way to go from tuple pairs of numbers to one tuple of all the individual numbers

How can i get this

nums = [(0, 1), (1, 2), (2, 3), (3, 4), (4, 5), (5, 6), (6, 7), (7, 8)]
 

to this?

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
 

I did:

>>> zip(*nums)[0]
 (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
 

But it gives me everything except the last element and then i had to use some bad code to get it to the correct result so i was looking for an elegant solution.

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