How do I get the last element of a list in Python?

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Aryan Kumar · Answer

In Python, you can get the last element of a list using negative indexing. Here's an example:
my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
last_element = my_list[-1]
print(last_element)  # Output: 5
In this example, my_list[-1] returns the last element of the list
my_list, which is 5. Negative indexing starts from the end of the list, with
-1 being the index of the last element, -2 being the index of the second-last element, and so on.
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Krishnapriya Rajeev · Answer

Python supports negative indexing, where the index -1 denotes the last element, -2 denotes the second last element, and so on.
One can easily access the last element of a list as follows:
list = ['apple','banana','cherry','orange','papaya']
print(list[-1])			# printing the last element
# Output: papaya

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