列处理——变形

#input is a list named legislators, the first two elements looks like this:
#[[‘Bassett‘, ‘Richard‘, ‘1745-04-02‘, ‘M‘, ‘sen‘, ‘DE‘, ‘Anti-Administration‘], [‘Bland‘, ‘Theodorick‘, ‘1742-03-21‘, ‘‘, ‘rep‘, ‘VA‘, ‘‘]]
#Bassett Richard is the name
#1745-04-02 is bithdate
#M is gender

birth_years = []
for row in legislators:
    birth_list=row[2].split(‘-‘)
    birth_years.append(birth_list[0])

for i,row in enumerate(legislators):
    row.append(birth_years[i])