Beginner's question about slicing

Question

I wonder if I'll ever need it, but... somelist[-3:-1] will give me a slice without the last element. Is there a way to get the last element while still counting from the back? 0 obviously can not work.

Answer 1

Yeah, Jan Markus ' version is the standard. I'm nowhere near familiar with list slicing.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/509211/understanding-pythons-slice-notation

Answer 2

somelist[-1:-4:-1]

Answer 3

I'm aware that there are ways to circumvent the issue, but just out of interest: is there a way to get the index of the position rightside of - 1 directly?

Answer 4

Haha, how about this? ;-)

[1,2,3][-1:-4:-1][::-1]

Not exactly as concise as I'd like it to be though... :D

Or do you find it concise, Denise Roßberg?