How to get last items of a list in Python?

Question

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:

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Answer 1

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:]