title: How to read list element in Python from a text file?
body: <p>My text file is like below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[0, "we break dance not hearts by Short Stack is my ringtone.... i LOVE that !!!.....\n"]
  [1, "I want to write a . I think I will.\n"]
  [2, "@va_stress broke my twitter..\n"]
  [3, "\" &amp;quot;Y must people insist on talking about stupid politics on the comments of a bubblegum pop . Sorry\n"]
  [4, "aww great  &amp;quot;Picture to burn&amp;quot;\n"]
  [5, "@jessdelight I just played ur joint two s ago. Everyone in studio was feeling it!\n"]
  [6, "http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wpcl10670s.jpg her s are so perfect.\n"]
  [7, "cannot hear the new  due to geographic location. i am geographically undesirable. and tune-less\n"]
  [8, "\" couples in public\n"]
  [9, "damn wendy's commerical got that damn  in my head.\n"]
  [10, "i swear to cheese &amp;amp; crackers @zyuuup is in Detroit like every 2 months &amp;amp; i NEVER get to see him!  i swear this blows monkeyballs!\n"]
  [11, "\" getting ready for school. after i print out this\n"]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to read every second element from the list mean all the text tweets into array.</p>
  
  <p>I wrote </p>
  
  <pre><code>tweets = []
  for line in open('tweets.txt').readlines():
      print line[1]
      tweets.append(line)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I see the output, It just takes 2nd character of every line. </p>