How to get nth last in list? [duplicate]

Question

I know how to get the last item in a list myList:

myList[-1]

But how would I get the second last, or the nth last item in a string, without doing something like this:

myList[len(myList)-(n-1)

DoubtingThomas3005 · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06 13:40:00Z

You can just keep using the reverse index.

# Second to list myList[-2] # n last n=3 myList[-3]

In the second case, it would return the third from last. You can also iterate over the list using this

for item in myList[::-1]: print(item)

Karl Olufsen · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06 13:33:23Z

Second last would be myList[-2], nth last is myList[-n] You can read about negative indexing here

Chris Montanaro · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-06 13:32:39Z

Increase your negative index to count back from the end of a list

>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> l[-1] 5 >>> l[-2] 4 >>> l[-3] 3

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