Get the last item in a list

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Needs to be tested

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Name	Status	Author	Last Modified
Get the first item in a list	Needs to be tested	Christian Lawson-Perfect	10/05/2023 13:29
Get the last item in a list	Needs to be tested	Christian Lawson-Perfect	10/05/2023 13:29
Get the first item in a list	Ready to use	Christian Lawson-Perfect	23/11/2023 11:36
Get the last item in a list	Ready to use	Christian Lawson-Perfect	23/11/2023 11:36

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Ask the student a question, and give any hints about how they should answer this part.

The variable seq is a list.

Write code to get the last item in the list.

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Correct answer

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seq[-1]

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from random import randrange
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seq = list(range(randrange(1000,2000), randrange(2000,3000)))

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studentAnswer = _

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[
  ["Got the last element", 1, "studentAnswer == seq[-1]"]
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dict()

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There are two ways of getting the last item in a list in Python.

The first is quite long-winded: seq[len(seq)-1].

Python has a shorter notation: if you give a negative index, Python takes that from the length of the list automatically: seq[-1].

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Programming extension demo by Christian Lawson-Perfect in Programming extension.

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