Question

I have a list of elements. for each element I want to split into 3 numbers separated by ‘,’ and print them.

My code is not doing what I want. :S

l = ['14,23,63\n','41,20,76\n','65,23,42\n']
for element in l:
    element.split(',')
    print element[0],element[1],element[2] #outcome should be e.g. 14,23,63

Answer 1

str.split returns a new list.

for element in l:
    parts = element.split(',')
    print parts

Also you probably want to trim as well (element.strip().split(',')).