NEED HELP IN SLICING AND REVERSE

Question

number = list (range(10))
print (number[1:7:-1])
Output is []
Expecting: [6,5,4,3,2,1]

But

number = list (range(10))
number2 = number[1:7]
print (number2[::-1])
Output is [6,5,4,3,2,1]

I have to make a separate variable just to reverse the list ? Is there any other way ? What’s an alternate way to do reverse step slicing ? In simple words new list with starting 6 digits in reverse order from the original list.

Answer 1

Instead
print(number[-4:-10:-1])

Answer 2

You don't have to create a new variable, instead switch the places in the slicing:

nums = list(range(10))
print(nums[7:0:-1])

This leads to the wished for output.