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What is negative index in Python?

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What is negative index in Python?
posted Dec 3, 2014 by Kali Mishra

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Python sequences can be index in positive and negative numbers. For positive index, 0 is the first index, 1 is the second index and so forth. For negative index, (-1) is the last index and (-2) is the second last index and so forth.

answer Dec 3, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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