All language subtitles for 11. Accessing Items and Slices with Negative Indexes

So how do we get the last item of this list?
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Well, you can do that by referring to the list and then square brackets, and then refer to the index of the
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item you want.
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So 9.9 has an index of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. 4.
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OK, but a smarter way is to use negative indexing which means instead of counting you can just write
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minus one and you get 9.9.
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So each of the items of a Python list has two indexes,
a negative and positive index.
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So minus one for this, minus two for that, minus three, months four, minus five, so minus five is the first
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item actually 9.1.
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And of course you can to list slicing using negative indexing.
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Let's try to get the last two items, so to do this slicing
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you have to put the index or the first item of the slice
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so the first item of the slice is 6.6, and 6.6 has a negative index of 2, use a colon.
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Then you don't want to assign anything here because you want everything that comes after 6.6.
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So just like that and you get that tail of the list.
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So similarly you can do minus four minus two for example, that will give you 8.8.
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Minus four, minus three, and minus two is not included in the slices because I told you that to the upper limit
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is never included in the slice.
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So you only get this and that. You can also start from the beginning of the list to get 9.1.
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The first item like that.