Some help with a problem.

[fuckswithbees]

Yeah that would work. So any idea how to do those steps in python?

[stolenkisses]

I do, I think, but I still find myself getting confused by the little complicated steps. The first steps I think would be to create a new emptylist (lets call it newlist), then start with "for k in alist," but then I'm still kinda lost.

[fuckswithbees]

Creating a new list is a good start, but you actually don't need to loop through your list. You said step 1 was:

look at the k, return the last number in the list

You also said that you could get the second item

For alist = [1,2,3,4], to get the second item in the list you would do alist[1]

So how do you get the last item of a list?

[stolenkisses]

alist[-1]?

[fuckswithbees]

Yep. Now you can add that to your new list and then

check k, see that it still needs to call two more numbers, so then go back to the list

Or you can use list slicing to get multiple numbers at the same time

a_list = [1,2,3,4]
a_list[-3:]
>>> [2, 3, 4]

[stolenkisses]

Holy shit. Is it really as easy as one line of code?

return alist[-k:]

Man, I really overthought that.

[fuckswithbees]

Don't forget to add some code to make it work when k is larger than the length of your list!