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Working with Lists in Python
Selecting List Elements II
What if we want to select the last element of a list?
We can use the index -1
to select the last item of a list, even when we don’t know how many elements are in a list.
Consider the following list with 5 elements:
list1 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
If we select the -1
element, we get the final element, 'e'
:
>>> print(list1[-1]) 'e'
This is the same as selecting the element with index 4
:
>>> print(list1[4]) 'e'
Instructions
1.
Use print
and len
to display the length of shopping_list
.
2.
Get the last element of shopping_list
using the -1
index. Save this element to the variable last_element
.
3.
Now select the element with index 5
and save it to the variable element5
.
4.
Use print
to display both element5
and last_element
.