title: Displaying and formatting list from external file in Python
body: <p>I have an external file that I'm reading a list from, and then printing out the list. So far I have a for loop that is able to read through the list and print out each item in the list, in the same format as it is stored in the external file. My list in the file is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['1', '10']
  ['Hello', 'World']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My program so far is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>file = open('Original_List.txt', 'r')
  file_contents = file.read()
  for i in file_contents.split():
      print(i)
  file.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output I'm trying to get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1        10
  Hello    World
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And my current output is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>['1',
  '10']
  ['Hello',
  'World']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm part way there, I've managed to separate the items in the list into separate lines, but I still need to remove the square brackets, quotation marks, and commas. I've tried using a loop to loop through each item in the line, and only display it if it doesn't contain any square brackets, quotation marks, and commas, but when I do that, it separates the list item into individual characters, rather than leave it as one entire item. I also need to be able to display the first item, then tab it over, and print the second item, etc, so that the output looks identical to the external file, except with the square brackets, quotation marks, and commas removed. Any suggestions for how to do this? I'm new to Python, so any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>