What is a negative index?
Negative index in python :
- Python list items can be accessed with positive or negative index.
- If list of size n then
0 positive index // first index
1 positive index // second index
(n-1) // last index
-n // first index
-(n-1) // second
-1 // last index
- List indexes of -x mean the xth item from the end of the list, so n[-1] means the last item in the list n.
- Negative numbers mean that you count from the right instead of the left. So, list[-1] refers to the last element, list[-2] is the second-last, and so on.
- Ex:
- If we have a list a = [1,2,3,4] then a[-1] will refer to 4 and a[-2] refer to 3.
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