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

This will work:

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

However you might want to think about doing the conversion at the point where the list is first created.