title: More pythonic method of indexing with a list of coordinates
body: <p>So I am designing a program which needs to index a nested list, using a stored list of coordinates:</p>
  
  <p>e.g</p>
  
  <pre><code>coordinate = [2,1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For a function which returns the element in the nested list, I use</p>
  
  <pre><code>return room[coordinate[0]][coordinate[1]]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My programming instincts tell me that this seems overly long, and there should be a shorter method of doing this especially in Python, but I can't seem to find anything of the sort. Does anyone know if there is a method like this?</p>