I have a list in which each element is a single number in a list. How do I extract the numbers?

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?

>Solution :

You are almost correct but list(element.values()) gives you a list, You don’t want to append the list itself but the only item inside it. So do a subscription:

values.append(val[0])

or you can use .extend() instead of .append():

values.extend(val)

If I were to write this, I would do one of these:

print([list(d.values())[0] for d in my_list])
print([next(iter(d.values())) for d in my_list])