Bug: subscribe_live() returns only the record payload and drops action in Python SDK 2.0.0

[Zanehb]

Describe the bug

In the Python SDK surrealdb==2.0.0, subscribe_live() appears to return only the inner record payload from a live query notification, instead of returning the full notification object containing action and result.

According to the Python SDK documentation, live query notifications should contain:

{
"action": "CREATE" | "UPDATE" | "DELETE",
"result": ...
}

However, the current behavior only returns the changed record itself, so notification["action"] raises a KeyError.

Steps to reproduce

from surrealdb import Surreal

with Surreal("ws://") as db:
db.signin({
"username": "root",
"password": "secret"
})

db.use("lab", "lab")

query_uuid = db.live("person")

print("query_uuid =", query_uuid)
print("query_uuid type =", type(query_uuid))

for notification in db.subscribe_live(query_uuid):
    print("raw notification =", notification)
    print("notification type =", type(notification))

    if isinstance(notification, dict):
        print("keys =", notification.keys())

    print(notification["action"])
    print(notification["result"])

Expected behaviour

{
"action": "CREATE" | "UPDATE" | "DELETE",
"result": ...
}

SurrealDB version

surreal 3.0.5

surrealdb.py version

surrealdb.py==2.0.0, windows

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