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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:26 AM,  <shengjie.shengjie@live.com> wrote:
> The idea is to grab the last 4 elements of the array. However i have an a=
rray that contains a few hundred elements in it. And the values continues t=
o .append over time. How would i be able to display the last 4 elements of =
the array under such a condition?

I assume you mean 'list' rather than 'array'.
If all you want to do is 'display' the last 4 elements:

big_list =3D [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
last4 =3D  big_list[-4:]
print(last4)