Howto: extract a 'column' from a list of lists into a new list?

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

"Greg Brunet" <gregbrunet at NOSPAMsempersoft.com> wrote previously:
|>>> tbl.Fields()
|[('STOCKNO', 'C', 8, 0), ('DACC', 'C', 5, 0), ('DEALERACCE', 'C', 30,
|0), ('D-ACCRTL', 'C', 9, 0), ('D-ACCCST', 'C', 9, 0)]

  NAME,TYPE,LEN,DEC = range(4)
  names = [row[NAME] for row in tbl.Fields()]

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