How to get nth last in list?

Question

I know how to get the last item in a list myList:

myList[-1]

But how would I get the second last, or the nth last item in a string, without doing something like this:

myList[len(myList)-(n-1)

Answer 1

You can just keep using the reverse index.

# Second to list
myList[-2]

# n last
n=3
myList[-3]

In the second case, it would return the third from last. You can also iterate over the list using this

for item in myList[::-1]:
    print(item)

Answer 2

Increase your negative index to count back from the end of a list

>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> l[-1]
5
>>> l[-2]
4
>>> l[-3]
3

Answer 3

Second last would be myList[-2], nth last is myList[-n] You can read about negative indexing here