Python: How do I get a certain digit of an element in a list?

Question

For example i have a list of numbers of different length:

a = ['3245', '678904', '879654']

How do I get, say, third digit of an element with index 1?

As with strings we can get a certain symbol by it's index:

x = 'apple'
print(x[2])
>>>p

But can I do it with a list element without introducing any other variables?
It should look something like this:

a = ['3245', '678904', '879654']
print(str(a[1])[2])
>>>8

I hope I've delivered my thought clearly :)

Answer 1

Yeah, you can just double-index.

print(str[1][2])