Wrapping around a list in Python.

[Dave Angel]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:26:49 -0800 (PST), shengjie.shengjie at live.com 
wrote:
> The idea is to grab the last 4 elements of the array. However i 
have an array that contains a few hundred elements in it. And the 
values continues to .append over time. How would i be able to display 
the last 4 elements of the array under such a condition?

Your earlier example showed [5, 4, 1, 2] as one of the results, which 
is not "the last four". But assuming your goal has now changed and 
you really have an array (or list) of a few hundred elements,  then 
you can just use data [-4:] to get them. 

But if you're being imprecise and these values are not really in an 
array, then follow Peter ' advice and use a deque. Or fake it with a 
list,  appending to the end and popping from the beginning.

-- 
DaveA