Slicing every element of a list

[Christopher Subich]

Gary Herron wrote:
> Alex Dempsey wrote:
>> for line in lines:
>>    line = line[1:-5]
>>    line = line.split('\"\t\"')
> This, in fact, did do the operation you expected, but after creating the 
> new value and assigning it to line, you promptly threw it away. (Because 
> the loop then went back to the top and (re)assigned the next thing in 
> lines to line wiping out your nicely sliced computation in lines.)  You 
> need to *do* something with the value in line before you end the loop -- 
> but what?

As an intermediate tip, the entire loop can be written as a single list 
comprehension:

stuff = [li[1:-5].split('"\t"') for li in lines]

(You don't need to escape single quotes inside double-quoted strings, 
and vice versa.)