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buran

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Nov-01-2020, 12:06 PM (This post was last modified: Nov-01-2020, 12:08 PM by buran.)

First of all - your code will indeed raise an error because there is missing closing ] :-)

now, look at

a = [3, 1, -2]
print(a[a[-1]])

a[-1] will return -2, so this is equivalent to print(a[-2]). and a[-2] is 1

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RE: need help in referencing a list - by buran - Nov-01-2020, 12:06 PM

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