How to trim a list in Python

Question

Suppose I have a list with X elements

[4,76,2,8,6,4,3,7,2,1...]

I\'d like the first 5 elements. Unless it has less than 5 elements.

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Answer 1

>>> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9][:5]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> [1,2,3][:5]
[1, 2, 3]