Print the first item in list, wrong output

Question

code:

 # open some file
    for line in fp:
        list = line.strip().split();
        list = str(data_list);
        print(list[0]);

My output:

[

Expected Output: 2,500,000.00 some other number, only first item in every list

In my list:

['2,500,000.00', '—', '2,999,999.99', '6,871', '158,164,946', '99.98619', '18,747,446,313.27', '2,728,488.77']
and more......

Answer 1

That's because it's not a list. You are converting list into a string:

    list = str(data_list);
    print(list[0]);

, remove it and it should work fine.