WHAT is [0] in subprocess.Popen(blah).communicate()[0]

[johnny]

Can someone tell me what is the reason "[0]" appears after
".communicate()"

For example:
last_line=subprocess.Popen([r"tail","-n 1", "x.txt"],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]

Thank you.

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