title: NLTK Named Entity recognition to a Python list
body: <p>I used NLTK's <code>ne_chunk</code> to extract named entities from a text:</p>
  
  <pre><code>my_sent = "WASHINGTON -- In the wake of a string of abuses by New York police officers in the 1990s, Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, spoke forcefully about the pain of a broken trust that African-Americans felt and said the responsibility for repairing generations of miscommunication and mistrust fell to law enforcement."
  
  
  nltk.ne_chunk(my_sent, binary=True)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I can't figure out how to save these entities to a list? E.g. –</p>
  
  <pre><code>print Entity_list
  ('WASHINGTON', 'New York', 'Loretta', 'Brooklyn', 'African')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>