Extracting elements over multiple lists?

[Peter Otten]

JoeM wrote:

> Thanks guys, I was just looking for a one line solution instead of a
> for loop if possible. Why do you consider
> 
> [x.remove(x[0]) for x in [a,b,c]]
> 
> cheating? It seems compact and elegant enough for me.

I think it's a misconception that you are avoiding the for-loop. You move it 
into [...] and declare it more elegant, but in reality you are creating a 
throwaway list of None-s. You are adding cruft to your code. 

That is not only superfluous, but also misleading. A simple for-loop like

for x in a, b, c:
    del x[0]

on the other hand makes your intention crystal-clear.