"shawn bright" <nephish at gmail.com> wrote > new_list = [] > for item in lists: # item will look something like [var1, var2, > var3] > if item[0] in new_list > basicly, i want to know if item[0] is one of the items[0] in my > new_list Your pseudo code is pretty much exactly right. What more are you looking for? Alan G.