slice last 4 items from a list

[brad]

Is this the correct way to slice the last 4 items from a list?

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print x[-4:]

It works, but is it Pythonic?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

brad a écrit :

Is this the correct way to slice the last 4 items from a list?

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print x[-4:]

It works, but is it Pythonic?

Is there a more obvious (for a pythonic definition of 'obvious') way to
do it ? If no, then it's pythonic... Now FWIW, I usually use
'esrever'[::-1] to reverse a string, so I may not be a reference !-)

[John Machin]

On Oct 2, 6:27 am, brad <[e-mail]:

Is this the correct way to slice the last 4 items from a list?

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print x[-4:]

It works, but is it Pythonic?

It's Pythonic. It's also unambiguous, unlike your specification, which
could be interpreted as 'chop off the last 4 items from a list' i.e.
del x[-4:]. What you are actually doing is 'print the last 4 items of
a list'.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <11**********************@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>, John
Machin wrote:

On Oct 2, 6:27 am, brad <[e-mail]:

>Is this the correct way to slice the last 4 items from a list?

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
print x[-4:]

It works, but is it Pythonic?

It's Pythonic. It's also unambiguous, unlike your specification, which
could be interpreted as 'chop off the last 4 items from a list' ...

No, the OP is using "slice" in the technically correct CS sense.