Python slice first and last element in list

Question

Is there a way to slice only the first and last item in a list?

For example; If this is my list:

>>> some_list
[\'1\', \'B\', \'3\', \'D\',          


        

Answer 1

You can use something like

y[::max(1, len(y)-1)]

if you really want to use slicing. The advantage of this is that it cannot give index errors and works with length 1 or 0 lists as well.