title: Making a list from list of lists
body: <p>I have the below list of lists</p>
  
  <pre><code>[['Afghanistan,2.66171813,7.460143566,0.490880072,52.33952713,0.427010864,-0.106340349,0.261178523'], ['Albania,4.639548302,9.373718262,0.637698293,69.05165863,0.74961102,-0.035140377,0.457737535']]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to create a new list with only the country names. </p>
  
  <p>So</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Afghanistan, Albania]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Currently using this code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>with open(fileName, "r") as f:
      _= next(f)
      row_lst = f.read().split()
      countryLst = [[i] for i in row_lst]
  </code></pre>