How to get last items of a list in Python?

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Nope picture Nope · Mar 14, 2009 · Viewed 395.5k times · Source

I need the last 9 numbers of a list and I'm sure there is a way to do it with slicing, but I can't seem to get it. I can get the first 9 like this:

num_list[0:9]

Answer

winsmith picture winsmith · Mar 14, 2009

You can use negative integers with the slicing operator for that. Here's an example using the python CLI interpreter:

>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
>>> a[-9:]
[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]

the important line is a[-9:]

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