Great work! OK, let's do another test. Get the last two items from favorite_things and put them into slice2.

You can do it like this: When using slices you can leave out the index either before or after the colon. This will make the slice look through the entire list. You can go through the list from the back using "-", that way it will take the last two items on the list.

favorite_things = ['raindrops on roses', 'whiskers on kittens', 'bright copper kettles',
                   'warm woolen mittens', 'bright paper packages tied up with string',
                   'cream colored ponies', 'crisp apple strudels']

slice1 = favorite_things[1:4]
slice2 = favorite_things[-2:]

I couldn't understand why mine wasn't working. Stupid typo. Typed favorite_thing instead of favorite_things. Its always a typo. Anyways, here is my answer.

favorite_things = ['raindrops on roses', 'whiskers on kittens', 'bright copper kettles',
                   'warm woolen mittens', 'bright paper packages tied up with string',
                   'cream colored ponies', 'crisp apple strudels']
slice1 = favorite_things[1:4]
slice2 = favorite_things[5:]

You can use - negative sign to Access last two items. Forexample läst 3 items is [-3:]

Slices don't slice the last index item because the end index of slice tells python where to stop but does not include the value at the index. To work around this we can tell where to start the slice with no end index and python will know to stop when it reaches the end of the length of favorite_things. For example favorite_things[0:2] will pull values from index 0 and 1 but will stop at index 2 but not return the value at index 2. Using that if we tell python favorite_things[0:] with no ending index, it will add all the values from the start to finish. To solve the ending issue try favorite_things[-2:] or favorite_things[5:]. Hope this helps!!!

Hello! but how come this doesn't work?:

slice2 = favorite_things[6:]

slice2 = favorite_things[6:999]

slice2 = favorite_things[5:]