What is the output of the following? a = [1, 2, 3] print(a[-1], a[-2:])

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What is the output of the following? a = [1, 2, 3] print(a[-1], a[-2:])

Key points

  • Negative indexing in Python starts from the end of the list
  • a[-1] accesses the last element of the list
  • a[-2:] accesses a sublist starting from the second-to-last element
  • The output includes the last element and a sublist from the second-to-last element to the end

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