How to access the low digits of a list

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:23 pm, fl wrote:

> I don't know whether there is a way to know the length of lines[3].

The same way as to know the length of anything else:

len(x)  # the length of x
len("hello")  # the length of "hello"
len(lines[3])  # the length of lines[3]

> Then, 
> I can use a -1 step to get the last two digits. Or, you may have much
> better ways to do that. Python is really too versatile I feel.

Last two digits of a string:

mystring = "123456"
mystring[-2:]


-- 
Steven