title: Get the first character of the first string in a list?
body: <p>How would I get the first character from the first string in a list in Python?  </p>
  
  <p>It seems that I could use <code>mylist[0][1:]</code> but that does not give me the first character.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; mylist = []
  &gt;&gt;&gt; mylist.append("asdf")
  &gt;&gt;&gt; mylist.append("jkl;")
  &gt;&gt;&gt; mylist[0][1:]
  'sdf'
  </code></pre>