tail

Python Morsels Exercise

Return last N items in a given iterable

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I want you to make a function that takes a sequence (like a list, string, or tuple) and a number n and returns the last n elements from the given sequence, as a list.

For example:

>>> tail([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3)
[3, 4, 5]
>>> tail('hello', 2)
['l', 'o']
>>> tail('hello', 0)
[]

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