How to split elements of a list?

Question

I have a list:

my_list = ['element1\t0238.94', 'element2\t2.3904', 'element3\t0139847']

How can I delete the \t and everything after to get this result:

['element1', 'element2', 'element3']

Answer 1

Something like:

>>> l = ['element1\t0238.94', 'element2\t2.3904', 'element3\t0139847']
>>> [i.split('\t', 1)[0] for i in l]
['element1', 'element2', 'element3']

Answer 2

myList = [i.split('\t')[0] for i in myList] 

Answer 3

Try iterating through each element of the list, then splitting it at the tab character and adding it to a new list.

for i in list:
    newList.append(i.split('\t')[0])