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How to get the last element of a list in Python?


Python sequence, including list object allows indexing. Any element in list can be accessed using zero based index. If index is a negative number, count of index starts from end.  As we want last element in list, use -1 as index.

>>> L1=[1,2,3,4,5]
>>> print (L1[-1])
5