Apr-27-2020, 09:08 PM
As I understand it, the negative step effectively reserves the sequence. Then, it iterates over the reserved sequence until it reaches the fifth index. You may expect that to be [10, 8, 6], but counting backwards through the sequence starts at index -1 so the 6 gets cut off.
To achieve the desired output, you'll need to do this:
To achieve the desired output, you'll need to do this:
numbers[:5][::-2]