Most elegant way to modify elements of nested lists in place

Question

I have a 2D list that looks like this:

table = [[\'donkey\', \'2\', \'1\', \'0\'], [\'goat\', \'5\', \'3\', \'2\']]

I want to change the la

Answer 1

Use list comprehensions:

table = [row[0] + [int(col) for col in row[1:]] for row in table]