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

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title	tags	firstSeen	lastUpdated
List tail	list,beginner	2019-08-20T14:08:52+03:00	2020-11-02T19:28:35+02:00

Returns all elements in a list except for the first one.

• Use slice notation to return the last element if the list's length is more than 1.
• Otherwise, return the whole list.

def tail(lst):
  return lst[1:] if len(lst) > 1 else lst

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