30-seconds-of-code/snippets/initial.md

title, tags, firstSeen, lastUpdated

title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
List without last element	list,beginner	2019-08-20T14:08:52+03:00	2020-11-02T19:28:05+02:00

Returns all the elements of a list except the last one.

• Use lst[:-1] to return all but the last element of the list.

def initial(lst):
  return lst[:-1]

initial([1, 2, 3]) # [1, 2]