title: Accidentally placed lists inside of list?
body: <p>When I run this file, everything seems to calculate correctly, except for the fact that I end up with the individual list elements inside of lists themselves. This makes it difficult to do some other operations I would like to perform on the individual parts of the list. </p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>growthslist = []
  f = open("growths.txt",'r')
  count = 0
  for line in f:
      count+=1
  charnum = int((count/9))
  f.seek(0)
  for i in range(count):
      growthslist.append(f.readline().splitlines())
  namelist = []
  namecounter = 0
  for i in range(charnum):
      namelist.append(growthslist[namecounter])
      namecounter +=9
  print(namelist)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run this code, it returns [['Test 1'], ['Test 2'], ['Test 3'], ['Test 4'], ['Test 5']].
  Is there anything I can do about this?</p>