[Tutor] what's a concise way to print the first elements in a nested list

[Orri Ganel]

Vincent Wan wrote:

> If I have a list stuff = [[0,sdfsd,wrtew], [1, rht,erterg]] whats the  
> most concise way to print the first elements:
>
> [0, 1]
>
> if tried    print stuff[:][0]  but that just prints the whole list.
>
> Vincent
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 >>> stuff = [[0,'sdfsd','wrtew'], [1, 'rht','erterg']]
 >>> stuff
[[0, 'sdfsd', 'wrtew'], [1, 'rht', 'erterg']]
 >>> print [stuff[i][0] for i in range(len(stuff))]
[0, 1]

List comprehensions - cool stuff ;-)

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