["python","list","slice"]
How to get last items of a list in Python?

I need the last 9 numbers of a list and I'm sure there is a way to do it with slicing, but I can't seem to get it. I can get the first 9 like this: num_list[0:9]
You can use negative integers with the slicing operator for that. Here's an example using the python CLI interpreter: >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] >>> a[-9:] [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] the important line is a[-9:]