boB Stepp <[email protected]> writes:
> So in this model of understanding negative list indexing, should it be:
>
> mylist = [ 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 ]
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 ?
For completeness, let's use the rest of the integers also::
0 1 2 3 4 5
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
mylist = [ 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 ]
↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑
−5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ?
> But in this model, what should go in the place of "?"?
You can use ‘len(mylist)’ for the index at the end of the sequence.
There isn't a negative number which will address that position; it isn't
needed, because there is already one obvious way :-)
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