I am a python beginner and I have a list. It goes like this:

```
my_list=[
     {"first":"1"}, 
     {"second": "2"}, 
     {"third": "1"}, 
     {"four": "5"}, 
     {"five":"5"}, 
     {"six":"9"},
     {"seven":"7"}
    ]

```

I want to extract the single values of this list.
I wrote the following piece of code:

```
values = []

for element in my_list:
    val = list(element.values())
    values.append(val)

print(values)

```

This is my output:

```
[['1'], ['2'], ['1'], ['5'], ['5'], ['9'], ['7']]

```

I want only the value numbers to be in my list. [1,2,1,5,5,9,7]
How do I fix my code?